From: Eray Ozkural <examachine@gmail.com>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: frederic.gava@univ-paris-est.fr, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Parallel n-queens solver
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:33:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=UekGKT0OvC6sqHXnGc2TJkgiGQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <017001cc037f$3fdb5350$bf91f9f0$@ffconsultancy.com>
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> Frédéric wrote:
> That old "invoke" combinator that evaluates a function application on a
> forked process and marshals the result back could be used to implement a
> naïve Parallel.init and, therefore, this solution could be translated to
> OCaml quite easily. However, it would still lack load balancing. That turns
> out to be ok in this particular case because the generated data is quite
> evenly distributed (and we assume that nothing else is running on the
> machine) but real applications might not be so lucky...
>
> Turns out you can also use data flow parallelism entirely by r
>
>
Compare implementations of the adaptive quadrature algorithm. That doesn't
balance so easily :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_quadrature
Cheers,
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Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-24 23:32 Jon Harrop
2011-04-25 10:36 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-04-25 16:36 ` Frédéric Gava
2011-04-25 19:30 ` Jon Harrop
2011-04-25 23:33 ` Eray Ozkural [this message]
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