  We give a brief discussion of the recently developed Constrained-Path Monte
Carlo Method. This method is a quantum Monte Carlo technique that eliminates
the fermion sign problem plaguing simulations of systems of interacting
electrons. The elimination is accomplished by trading an exact procedure for an
approximate one that has been demonstrated to give very accurate estimates of
energies and many-body correlation functions. We also give a short review of
its applications, a discussion of several strategies for parallelizing it, and
some speculation of its future extensions.
