[Trilinos-Users] monte carlo

[Kevin Long]

Hi Davide,

Monte Carlo is a very broad term.  What kind of Monte Carlo simulation do you 
have in mind? Sampling & DACE? Eigenvalue computation? Particle simulation? 
Stochastic differential equations? 

Depending on which you have in mind, Trilinos components may or may not be 
useful. To my knowledge, there are no prepackaged high-level Trilinos 
components for any of those problem types I listed, but for some problem 
types you may find some of the lower-level components useful; for example, 
using Epetra vectors to represent particle state and to take care of 
interprocessor transfer in a convenient way.

As Ross Bartlett points out, if you're interested in DACE or sampling, Dakota 
is an excellent choice. If you're interested in molecular simulation, you 
might want to look at Towhee, http://towhee.sourceforge.net/.

Hope that helps,

- kevin 



On Friday 17 March 2006 11:37, davide ricci wrote:
> Hi guys,
> is there any example in how to implement a simple parallel Monte Carlo
> code
> with the trilinos package ?
>
> all the best,
>
> davide

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