Re: [Help-gsl] Asynchronous multidimensional minimization

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Maxime:

Have you look in the literature for more proper minimization algorithm for your 
problem ?
GSL just offers classical algorithm.

Jerome   

On 21/09/12 16:54, Maxime Boissonneault wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a multidimensional minimization problem for which the function is pretty 
> long to compute (think hours or days). I coded a master-slave MPI communication 
> structure to do the work. I would have the master who dispatches sets of 
> parameters to compute to different slaves, on different computers.
>
> What I am wondering is if there is a way to use GSL multidimensional minimization algorithms in a 
> "queue many and wait for result" fashion rather than in a "evaluate the function 
> sequentially" fashion.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maxime Boissonneault