Re: What do you use GNU Parallel for?

[Rhys Ulerich]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Ole Tange <tange@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Rhys Ulerich <rhys.ulerich@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So please write a few lines about the tasks you use it for -
>>> especially if you have reason to believe you are one of the few doing
>>> that kind of thing.
>>
>> Like others, I have used parallel to perform parameter sweeps for my
>> scientific simulation code.  I often use parallel as a poor man's
>> batch system for collections of MPI jobs when I need to study grid
>> refinements to verify expected numerical convergence rates.
>
> In what area of science do you run simulations for?

Computational fluid dynamics.  More specifically, direct numerical
simulation of the compressible Navier--Stokes equations.  The
production simulations require dedicated HPC resources, but I can run
small MPI-parallel test problems on my workstation.

- Rhys