You're right. It IS way too general.

What exactly is "mymodel"? What are you trying to do? Are you running a
PRNG to run the scenarios?

Answer those questions, and you will likely get plenty of answers.

On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 13:09 -0400, Jorge Nieves wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> First I would like to apologize if my question seems to be out of the
> scope of this list. It is part of a Finacial model that I am working on.
> 
> I have a model in a  functional format:
> 
> Result  = mymodel(x,y)
> 
> I would like to run the model for a range of values for both variables
> "x" and "y". The number of possible combination of x and y spans several
> thousand possible scenarios. My goal is to find the best possible
> outcome out of all the different possibilities. I am able to setup  and
> run this exhaustively,  but it takes too long to cover the
> possibilities. I even have a parallel process set up, but it still takes
> too long.
> 
> I know my description might be  a bit too general, but I was wondering
> if anyone might have suggestions as what approaches I could experiment.
> I am looking  for some technique that might help to find fast
> convergence without the need to having to exhaust each of the
> possibilities.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jorge Nieves
> 
> 
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