There seems to be a problem for others to edit this page. I'm working on it. Michel 09/19/07
Issues around parallel computing
Matlab
Mathworks Cleve's corner on parallel Matlab [http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/news_notes/june07/clevescorner.html]
- Open source solutions:
LAM / MPI Parallel Computing under MATLAB [http://atc.ugr.es/javier-bin/mpitb_eng]
Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) under MATLAB [http://atc.ugr.es/javier-bin/pvmtb_eng]
Tests on Hal
x = randn(100,100); tic; for i=1:100000; y=x*x; end; toc
- 1 thread: 21 sec
- 4 threads: 24 sec
x = randn(1000,1000); tic; for i=1:100; y=x*x; end; toc
- 1 thread: 20.3 sec
4 threads: 7.7 sec -- MichelJuillard DateTime(2007-09-16T10:22:53Z)
Dynare
I. Azzini, R. Girardi, M. Ratto (2007) "Parallelization of Matlab codes under Windows platform for Bayesian estimation: a DYNARE application" [http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/juillard/dynare_conf_07/girardi.pdf]