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The problem sounds not dissimilar to hydrodynamic simulations, for which people have been using MPI for >20 years. I'm curious why you didn't use it. Can you sp
by davidmr 14y ago
The problem sounds not dissimilar to hydrodynamic simulations, for which people have been using MPI for >20 years. I'm curious why you didn't use it. Can you speak to this?
- pron 14y agoBecause our purpose was not to show how fast a simulation can run. We haven't tried to come up with a new approach to simulations. We've tried to present a new approach to databases, and show an example where a naive implementation with the right database can have decent performance. Also, the very same code would work if actions were triggered by a network request rather than by a main loop. We don't assume anything about how the spaceships are coordinated. If you coordinate them to run in lockstep, you could get better performance. But, again, we've tried to show the viability of the naive implementation, where nothing is assumed.