A Practical Guide to Parallelization in Economics

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús and David Zarruk Valencia
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde

No 12890, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This guide provides a practical introduction to parallel computing in economics. After a brief introduction to the basic ideas of parallelization, we show how to parallelize a prototypical application in economics using, on CPUs, Julia, Matlab, R, Python, C++–OpenMP, Rcpp–OpenMP, and C++–MPI, and, on GPUs, CUDA and OpenACC. We provide code that the user can download and fork, present comparative results, and explain the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. We conclude with some additional remarks about alternative approaches.

Keywords: Computational methods; Parallel computing; Programming languages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 C68 E37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-04
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