[Baypiggies] concurrency talk

[Ken Newton]

I'll add my vote to general interest in
concurrency/parallel/distributed systems...

My current application is an 'embarrasingly parallel' application
consisting of a simulation of ions in an 'ion trap' mass spectrometer.
The program simulates one ion at a time and is repeated for 100 ions
and each group is repeated for 1000's of different input parameters.
This is currently written in C++, submitted to 10's of PCs using the
Condor program and data analyzed and graphics created by a SciPy
Python program.

Nothing concurrent in the sense of messages from one task to another,
but can run either distributed or could utilize a (massive) multi-core
type system.

Ken Newton at Varian Inc