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Foil 55 Computing as a Physics Problem

From Physical Optimization and Physical Computation CPSP713 Case studies in Computational Science -- Spring Semester 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox
This optimization can also be thought of as finding ground state of a "physics" problem. The particles are "entities" (grid points) moving around in space with "# processors" discrete positions.
Repulsive force - load balance
Attractive force - communicate

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