parallelizing PCL in ROS [closed]

asked 2013-10-17 23:08:03 -0500

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Hello all;

I have one application in ROS using one node for data acquistion (Point Clouds using a laser) and another one to process the point clouds with PCL. Currently, I am using Ros Fuerte and PCL 1.5. PCL supports OpenMP natively, I have tested it in a Windows machine and uses several cores. The system is running in a Quad Core CPU, but when it cames to processing, the node is only executing in one of the cores or the CPU. Why is this? Is PCL compiled in ROS with the OpenMP flag activated?. I have time problems, so, is there any way to take advantage of all the cores to speed the process up?

Thank you all in advance,

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Closed for the following reason PCL Question: The PCL community prefers to answer questions at http://www.pcl-users.org/ by tfoote
close date 2014-11-23 03:18:56.934762