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Arithmetic effort, logarithmic return

Writing a short C program for a Monte Carlo simulation to approximate π: boring coding exercise

Running the script for 500 million data points on one node of the research cluster: cool the first time

Re-coding the script with MPI to run on multiple nodes simultaneously (with the number of nodes and data points per node both user-specified as command-line arguments): excessively cool

Accuracy of approximation: irrelevant

Posted by pjm on October 29, 2005 9:29 PM |

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Totally unrelatedly, I think the worst thing about planworld being down all day is that there’s no good outlet for venting your frustrations about planworld being down all day. Except for making isolated non-sequitor comments about it on the blogs of the co-marooned. Which really just isn’t the same, you know?

Posted by: L | October 30, 2005 12:09 AM

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