ariesb2b:

It doesn't have to be hard. I was thinking that if that approach worked for you, that you could write a simple script to do the overhead for you. Something like (untested):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

my $num_jobs=4;

# Split the work up
open my $IFH, '<', 'data.inp';
my @OFH;
open $OFH[$_-1], '>', "data.$_" for 1 .. $num_jobs;
my $cnt=0;
while (<$IFH>) {
    ++$cnt;
    my $FH = $OFH[$cnt%$num_jobs];
    print $FH, $_;
}
close $OFH[$_-1] for 1 .. $num_jobs;

# Do the work
for my $j (1 .. $num_jobs) {
    `perl orig_do_job --infile=data.$_ --outfile=data.out.$_  & `;
}

# Collect the results
`cat data.out.* >data.out`;

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...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re^3: Parallel running the process by roboticus
in thread Parallel running the process by ariesb2b

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