4.01.2011

Saguaro Cluster

So this Monte Carlo simulation is pretty cool, but extremely computationally expensive (compared to a normal analytical drift-diffusion simulation, that is). I'm going to try to get some time on the ASU Saguaro Cluster to run the simulator because the code is extremely easy to parallelize. If I have an ensemble of N particles, each particle is independent of the others, so for large values of N, throwing more cores at it results in a roughly linear speedup. In my case, N=5000 or 10000, so that's good. A simulation that takes 50 minutes on my computer should be done much, much faster on the cluster. I'll let you know how it goes.

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