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Foil 14 Topics Covered in CPS713 Case Study I) The Complete Parallel Metropolis Algorithm

From Master set for Overview of Case Studies of Computational Science CPSP713 Master for Overview -- Autumn Semester 1994. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
T: Parallelization of Measurement Phase of computation
  • Metropolis is initial state generation phase
T: Comparison of Statistical Mechanics and PDE Solvers
T: Parallelization by replication of problem in different nodes of a MIMD parallel machine
  • As opposed to solving single problem and decomposing domain of physical system
  • Replication can be thought of as parallelization over random number generation
  • Replication requires that each node can hold full physical system which is not always possible -- certainly impossible for QCD where one state fills memory of supercomputer.

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