Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am doing an assignment using MPI to
implement Game of Life. I was wondering if I should use a block-
row partitioning, a cyclic row partitioning or a block-
checkerboard partitioning?  share|improve this question add
comment  2 Answers  What are the pros and cons between the types
of partitioning? I tried to find references to the partitionings
(which seems to tie in with parallell processing) but it was
difficult to find such without going way over my head into it.
:)  Try the one that fits your needs the most, since it is an
assignment you should try the simplest one first and do the
others when time allows.  share|improve this answer add comment
However you do it, don't forget to make your partitions bigger
on each side with some overlap.  This will mean duplicating some
data, but it also means each partition can compute
independently. At the end of each tick your partitions can copy
their overlap to their neighbors.  share|improve this answer add
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