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Monte Carlo Simulations on the Playstation 3

The PS3 is quite something. It currently runs my simple Metropolis algorithm of the Ising model 22x faster than my Core2 6450 (not a beast of a machine but still). Although I have my suspicions that the more complicated (and memory hungry) Wang-Landau algorithm that I’m trying to implement will not be quite as successful. It requires more communication between the cores and that might cause some headaches. Unless one successfully splits the density of states up into sections and processes these independently, but then one must be sure to avoid systematic statistical errors

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