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Erik Paulson epaulson at students.wisc.edu
Wed Aug 9 14:46:25 PDT 2000


On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Indraneel Majumdar wrote:
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 09:15:21 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
> From: Indraneel Majumdar <indraneel at www.cdfd.org.in>
> Subject: Re: turbolinux.com
> 
> Can someone explain how parametric processing is done?
> 
>

You run the same program a whole bunch of times, each time with different
inputs. (See also Monte Carlo simulation)

It's a polite way of saying that you've got embarrassingly parallel work :)

-Erik







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