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by gradstudent12
October 19th, 2007, 11:15 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Need some feedback
Replies: 3
Views: 69768

Need some feedback

<t>I applied a month and a half ago... For the 3rd one I wrote something about the credit crunch, and I predicted that the Feds were going to cut the interest rate in an attempt to stabilize the market after the tumultuous month in August. Then I said that they should position themselves so that the...
by gradstudent12
October 8th, 2007, 7:28 pm
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: Distributed Finite Difference
Replies: 9
Views: 66386

Distributed Finite Difference

<t>I have an explicit scheme so it is easy to make parallel -- I get Log(running time) = -.94 * Log(Num processors) from a fit of a series of runs of the same problem just varying the # of processors used (up to 512 processors).My scalability is limited only by the ratio of the extra rows needed to ...
by gradstudent12
October 8th, 2007, 2:16 pm
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: Distributed Finite Difference
Replies: 9
Views: 66386

Distributed Finite Difference

<t>of courseMost basic idea with MPI:Domain Decomposition:You have a grid, you split up grid into N roughly equal partitions. Give each processors one of these partitions of domain.You have some (finite-difference) scheme which updates the quantites at each lattice site. This scheme requires some in...
by gradstudent12
September 25th, 2007, 12:09 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Constellation Energy? DC Energy? Barclay's Capital?
Replies: 1
Views: 65156

Constellation Energy? DC Energy? Barclay's Capital?

I'd love any info / tales of experience with any of these firms.Thanks
by gradstudent12
August 9th, 2007, 12:54 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: SIG phone interview
Replies: 0
Views: 67737

SIG phone interview

I have a phone interview with SIG (quantitative research associate) and I was just wondering what to expect.Thanks!