Optimizer on [Dual|Multi]-Core CPUs

[tomcat]

Hello !
When I run the optimizer, it uses about 50% of the CPU power of the dual-core cpu, either one core at 100% and the other idle or both at about 50%.

-> How about running the Optimizer in a multithreaded way so that each CPU/core can handle the calculation for a subset of the dataseries and speed up the optimizing by the number of CPU-cores available?

-> this should apply to single-instrument optimization as well as multi-instrument optimizer runs.

Many Thanks
Tomcat.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Thanks for your suggestion.

[pcole]

Optimizer on [Dual|Multi]-Core CPUs

Is there any news about using all CPU cores by optimizer (and walk forward also)?
I have a Intel Quad Core CPU and only one core is used during optimize phase...

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Sorry, nothing has changed there yet.

[whitegun]

Will multicore optimization finaly be availeble in NT7??

Will multicore optimization finaly be availeble in NT7??

Or NT didn't plan to implement this at all??

Will the memory problems relatet to optimizasion finaly be resolft in NT7 (this seems to be a forever bug!)?? Or NT also didn't plans to correct this bug??

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

We will make announcements as appropriate.

[whitegun]

When??

When??

You told in an other post NT7 beta will be available and of this year, so when we can expect to get some information about what will be implemented and what not??

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Likely towards the end of this year.

[whitegun]

Acording to an other post of yours (if I am not wrong) NT7 beta will aper end of the year! So you plan to not disclose anything until the beta?? Even will not answer concret questions (to specific points)??
Let us wait and wait for later found out that what is maybe indispensable for us was not implementet and after loosing half year waiting however we will need to adopt to an other platform to fullfil the task that NT can not do!!!!!!?????

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

We will make NT7 commitments as we announce featured towards the end of this year, which is after we have been able to successfully implement all NT7 features. We have multi-core support on our NT development list though.

[whitegun]

Thats, what I wantet to know! So multicore will be suported.

Will the memory problem in optimizasion (bug, NT crushing) be resolfed? This is not a feature but a bug (and a serios one wich already lasts forever) so I supose you can give me feedback on it.

I supose you know what I am speaking about?? Or should I explain??

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

>> Or should I explain??
Yes please. At best based on a the NT sample strategy SampleMaCrossOver.

[RL8093]

We have multi-core support on our NT development list though.

Not sure how to vote for prioritization of new features - but multi-core functionality should be high on the list. Seems that only one competitor has this support - if others like eSig finally add it to their program - it could hurt NT in the mkt. With the proliferation of multi-core CPUs - it would seem to be a miss to not have this functionality already ....

R

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Will be part of NT7.

[auspiv]

in defense of the ninjatrader dev team, writing programs to use multiple cores is not an easy task, especially if the task isn't parallel, which im guessing NT is not.