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Monitor the Parallel Efficiency of a Computation
The Parallel Kernel Status display, typically opened from the Evaluation menu, gives information on the parallel system. This includes a measure of the parallel acceleration that has been obtained. In the following example a decent acceleration was obtained.
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data = Parallelize[Table[ PrimeQ[n! + 1], {n, 400, 550}]];
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Parallel`Developer`KernelStatus[]
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