function InitializeComputationalEnvironment()

% PARALLEL CONTEXT
% In a parallel context, this function is used to Initialize the computational enviroment according with
% the user request.
%
% INPUTS
% o DataInput      []   ...
%
% OUTPUTS
% None
%
% Copyright © 2009-2017 Dynare Team
%
% This file is part of Dynare.
%
% Dynare is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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%
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% This is simple and check!
% The default value for the new field MatlabOctavePath now is 'matlab' or
% 'octave'. Then if the field is empty it is necessary to fill it with the
% default value.

% Deactivate some 'Parallel/Warning' message in Octave!
% Comment the line 'warning('off');' in order to view the warning message
% in Octave!

if isoctave
    warning('off');
end



global options_

isHybridMatlabOctave = false;
for j=1:length(options_.parallel)
    if isempty(options_.parallel(j).MatlabOctavePath)
        if isoctave
            options_.parallel(j).MatlabOctavePath = 'octave';
        else
            options_.parallel(j).MatlabOctavePath = 'matlab';
        end
    end
    if options_.parallel(j).Local && isempty(options_.parallel(j).DynarePath)
        dynareroot = strrep(which('dynare'),'dynare.m','');
        options_.parallel(j).DynarePath=dynareroot;
    end
    isHybridMatlabOctave = isHybridMatlabOctave || any(regexpi([options_.parallel(j).MatlabOctavePath], 'octave'));
end
isHybridMatlabOctave = isHybridMatlabOctave && ~isoctave;
options_.parallel_info.isHybridMatlabOctave = isHybridMatlabOctave;
if isHybridMatlabOctave
    % Reset dynare random generator and seed.
    set_dynare_seed('default');
end




% Invoke masterParallel with 8 arguments and the last equal to 1. With this shape
% for input data, masterParallel only create a new directory for remote
% computation. The name of this directory is time depending. For local
% parallel computations with Strategy == 1 delete the traces (if exists) of
% previous computations.

delete(['P_slave_*End.txt']);
masterParallel(options_.parallel,[],[],[],[],[],[],options_.parallel_info,1);


%  We sort in the user CPUWeight and most important the Parallel vector
%  in accord with this operation.

lP=length(options_.parallel);
for j=1:lP
    CPUWeight(j)=str2num(options_.parallel(j).NodeWeight);
end

NewPosition=ones(1,lP)*(-1);
CPUWeightTemp=ones(1,lP)*(-1);

CPUWeightTemp=CPUWeight;

for i=1:lP
    [NoNServes, mP]=max(CPUWeightTemp);
    NewPosition(i)=mP;
    CPUWeightTemp(mP)=-1;
end

CPUWeight=sort(CPUWeight,'descend');


for i=1:lP
    ParallelTemp(i)=options_.parallel(NewPosition(i));
end

Parallel=[];
options_.parallel=ParallelTemp;

return