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Parallelise FOR loop in IDL [message #77680]

Mon, 19 September 2011 05:55

Robin Wilson
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Hi,

I have some IDL code like the following, which implements a Monte Carlo
ray-tracing model:

FOR i = 0, 1000 DO BEGIN
; Start a new ray from source
; Do all sorts of complicated processing on it
; Record where it lands
ENDFOR

I want to be able to run it for more iterations while still keeping it
fairly fast. If I was writing this in C I'd use OpenMP to split the
iterations of the loop between the available cores (as they are
independent) and then use a reduction to join all of the records of
where the rays end up together.

Is there any way to do anything like this in IDL? I've seen FastDL but
that seems to use MPI instead (not quite what I want...) and
unfortunately doesn't appear to be available free for academics.

Any ideas?

Robin

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