Parallel calc script execution

Hi All,
We are having HP UX box with 4 processor and have 15 calc scripts. For parallel execution of these scripts We have set Calcparallel as 3 in .cfg file. My query is if these scripts are fired at the same time, will they going to execute in a seq. manner or in parallel fashion.
We have 11 dim. in which 10 are sparse and 1 is dense in our outline. We have analysed the log but could not figure out anything.
Any suggestions/guidance !!
Regards
-len

To run three calc scripts simultaneously, you're going to need three people who kick it off in EAS/Excel/MaxL or more likely three separately yet simultaneously scheduled MaxL scripts that execute the calculations.
From a data integrity (or just your sanity) perspective, it is good that the three calcs are addressing different parts of the database.
However, from an Essbase data cache/disk controller perspective, the two are going to be spending a lot of time thrashing as Essbase tries to load blocks for all three calcs into and out of memory as the calculations proceed.
You may find that these processes are faster when they are truly run one after the other.
Of course the only way to really know is the benchmark both approaches and see what happens.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour
Edited by: CL on May 16, 2009 5:57 PM
Whoops, three, not two.
Edited by: CL on May 16, 2009 5:57 PM
Whoops again, two referred to the data cache/disk controller, not the three calcs. I should not reread my posts and think that I can "improve" them.

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