23:25:47selwynit worked thanks very much. first time i started it up it complained Compile-error The variable LITERAL::*CONSTANT-DATUM-TO-LITERAL-NODE-CREATOR* is unbound. now it's fine..
23:26:40drmeisterI've been working with Martin all day on the distributor and fixing problems with the TI calculations - I think I got it working now.
23:27:09drmeisterWe are running calculations on a combination of AWS spot instances and my desktop GPU card. It's working nicely now.
23:27:29drmeisterIt involves 132 GPU accelerated jobs to run one calculation.
23:35:44drmeisterThe boehm GC doesn't give back memory to the OS.
23:36:51drmeisterBah - I don't want to speculate. Watch with top and see what happens.
23:37:28drmeisterThe parallelism uses 'fork' - so the main process is forking off children - they compile one source file and then die, taking their memory with them.
23:41:19selwynhm. i am going to bed now, will have to wait another day to try it out