JMP 10 multicore threading, memory allocation

Question

I'm running JMP 10 and am having some issues with performance. Monitoring system performance during creating a Space-filling Latin Hypercube DOE shows that CPU usage is at 25% and approximately 1 GB of RAM remains free. Is there a way to encourage multicore threading and high memory usage to speed up such calculations?

In addition, it seems there is an issue with memory allocation, as my RAM usage remains high even after such a process has finished.

I'm running with 4GB of RAM with an Intel Core i5 @ 2.50GHz processor.

jorgeramosdealm · Answer

In a mac I go to the terminal and clean the use of ram using the "purge" command. It will clean the ram.

XanGregg · Answer

A few operations in JMP are multi-threaded, though it's mostly higher end analytics. Most sorting is multi-threaded, but you needs tons of rows to notice it. Distribution is multi-threaded if there are multiple columns. Try Distribution on 8 variables gets my 8-core machine briefly to 100%.

unknown · Answer

I have a dual-core processor and I never see JMP use more than the one core.  SAS is barely multi-thread enabled (in fact, I believe most major statistical packages are not enabled - I know R can implement it, but isn't automated) so I wouldn't hold my breath on JMP getting it enabled even though it would be great to get multi-threads on things like All Subsets.