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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:45:54 -0500
From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] parallelizing/distributing quasi-Monte Carlo
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We've been using quasi-Monte Carlo integration in a class here at
Cooper, and the discussion turned to parallelization.  Some of my
classmates are going the MPI/cluster route, and I was thinking this
might be a good use of Plan 9's CSP style.  The general idea I had
uses one point generator process, n function evaluation processes, and
a collection process that handles estimation &c.

I think I know how to structure this on a single multiprocessor
machine, but what about a cluster?  Is there the equivalent of alts on
network connections?

If the question is unclear, I'll try again after I've gotten my
machine running the single computer form.

--Joel