[julia-users] Re: Finding multiple local minima in Julia

2014-07-27 Thread Charles Martineau
at? Basically it's sending each optimization problem to a separate worker and getting the results, taking into account that some optimizations might take much longer than others. Cheers, Ken On Saturday, 26 July 2014 23:13:28 UTC-5, Charles Martineau wrote: Yes I could do

[julia-users] Re: Finding multiple local minima in Julia

2014-07-26 Thread Charles Martineau
parallel multistart. Check out the parallel map and loops section of the parallel programming chapter in the Julia manual, I think it'll be clearer there. On Friday, July 25, 2014 8:00:40 PM UTC-4, Charles Martineau wrote: Thank you for your answer. So I would have to loop over, say 20 random

[julia-users] Finding multiple local minima in Julia

2014-07-25 Thread Charles Martineau
Dear Julia developers and users, I am currently using in Matlab the multisearch algorithm to find multiple local minima: http://www.mathworks.com/help/gads/multistart-class.html for a MLE function. I use this Multisearch in a parallel setup as well. Can I do something similar in Julia using

[julia-users] Re: Finding multiple local minima in Julia

2014-07-25 Thread Charles Martineau
points, and do a parallel-map over that set of starting points. Should work quite well. Trickier (maybe) would be to just give each processor a different random seed and generate starting points on each processor. On Friday, July 25, 2014 3:05:05 PM UTC-4, Charles Martineau wrote: Dear Julia