September Morn Update

Task/Distributed-programming/Julia/distributed-programming-1.julia

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+# From Julia 1.0's online docs. File countheads.jl available to all machines:
+
+function count_heads(n)
+    c::Int = 0
+    for i = 1:n
+        c += rand(Bool)
+    end
+    c
+end

Task/Distributed-programming/Julia/distributed-programming-2.julia

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+using Distributed
+@everywhere include_string(Main, $(read("count_heads.jl", String)), "count_heads.jl")
+
+a = @spawn count_heads(100000000) # runs on an available processor
+b = @spawn count_heads(100000000) # runs on another available processor
+
+println(fetch(a)+fetch(b)) # total heads of 200 million coin flips, half on each CPU