Parallel MCMC implementations exist. My favorite is emcee - http://dan.iel.fm/emcee/current/ http://dan.iel.fm/emcee/current/ which has excellent support for p

Parallel MCMC implementations exist. My favorite is emcee - http://dan.iel.fm/emcee/current/ http://dan.iel.fm/emcee/current/ which has excellent support for parallelism. Derail aside - I completely agree that lying about features is horrendous and I'd never ever work for a boss that did this on a regular basis.