# My parallel cellular automata with Distributed Arrays is very slowly

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-parallel-cellular-automata-with-distributed-arrays-is-very-slowly/15998
**Category:** Julia at Scale
**Created:** [October 7, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-parallel-cellular-automata-with-distributed-arrays-is-very-slowly/15998 "2018-10-07T18:31:36Z")
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### Author: ![dsHitman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dshitman/32/5465_2.png) [@dsHitman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dsHitman)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-parallel-cellular-automata-with-distributed-arrays-is-very-slowly/15998/1 "2018-10-07T18:31:36Z")

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Hi, I tried to implement a Game Of Life in Julia using the distributed Array and the Distributed library to improve it and make it faster than the sequential version, but althoug I have a quad core i7 CPU the programm is very slowly. Any suggestion?

PS This is the code  
[https://github.com/dsHitman/juliaProj/blob/master/GOLpar.jl](https://github.com/dsHitman/juliaProj/blob/master/GOLpar.jl)