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Parallel Object Oriented Monte Carlo Simulations

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Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments (ISCOPE 1998)

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We discuss the parallelization and object-oriented implementation of Monte Carlo simulations for physical problems. We present a C++ Monte Carlo class library for the automatic parallelization of Monte Carlo simulations. Besides discussing the advantages of object-oriented design in the development of this library, we show examples how C++ template techniques have allowed very generic but still optimal algorithms to be implemented for wide classes of problems. These parallel and object-oriented codes have allowed us to perform the largest quantum Monte Carlo simulations ever done in condensed matter physics.

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  1. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Matthias Troyer

  2. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Matthias Troyer, Beat Ammon & Elmar Heeb

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  1. Matthias Troyer
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  1. University of Nice - INRIA Sophia Antipolis, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, F-06902, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Denis Caromel

  2. Computer Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA

    Rodney R. Oldehoeft

  3. Los Alamos National Laboratory, CIC-8, MS B272, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA

    Marydell Tholburn

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Troyer, M., Ammon, B., Heeb, E. (1998). Parallel Object Oriented Monte Carlo Simulations. In: Caromel, D., Oldehoeft, R.R., Tholburn, M. (eds) Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments. ISCOPE 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1505. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49372-7_20

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