European Community project MONFISPOL, deliverable 2.2.2 : beta-version of parallel routines : user manual

In this document we describe the parallel package within DYNARE (called the "Parallel DYNARE" hereafter). The parallel methodology has been developed taking into account two different perspectives: the "User perspective" and the "Developers perspective". The fundamental requirement of the "User perspective" is to allow DYNARE users to use the parallel routines easily, quickly and appropriately. Under the "Developers perspective", on the other hand, we need to build a core of parallelizing routines that are sufficiently abstract and modular to allow DYNARE software developers to use them easily as a sort of `parallel paradigm', for application to any DYNARE routine or portion of code containing computational intensive loops suitable for parallelization. The Parallel DYNARE comes with the official DYNARE installation package, so the preprocessor part required to interpret the cluster definition is built-in the standard DYNARE installation.