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Is there a version of PAUP* that will run a search in parallel on a multiple processor machine or a cluster of machines?

April 26, 2017cluster Machine machines parallel paup* processor run search version

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Is there a version of PAUP* that will run a search in parallel on a multiple processor machine or a cluster of machines?

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Right now the answer is no. PAUP* is a single threaded application that will only take advantage of one processor at a time. Dave is in the process of parallellizing the code for the portable or Unix version of PAUP*, but it will be a while before a general parallel version of PAUP* available.