From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30A647ED26 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:34:07 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvABAGOTz0/RVdU2kGdsb2JhbABFFoU4rmAIIgEBAQEJCQ0HFAQjghgBAQEEEgIPFQgBGxwCAwwGBQsNAgIFFgsCAgkDAgECARERAQUBHBMIAQEQDodaAQMLC5l2CQOLUlCCcIR6ChknDVeIcQEFDIEXiXWDA4IEgRIDlR2BEo0LPoQb X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,725,1330902000"; d="scan'208";a="161634036" Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com ([209.85.213.54]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-MD5; 06 Jun 2012 19:34:06 +0200 Received: by yhgm50 with SMTP id m50so7753329yhg.27 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:34:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BLiLgELUw8RZMF2HeEK/AV5sW57NvBko4TAwnOwobhM=; b=CyroY0FqGFjISURtf8XAVS0FiEw7Ttwft5js6Cn2WH4EU/SQzEtt1Aiw6MpkVEpL/Q uwfyl19KHdkqIGo9v+Po5TU94Q98NRS2W5Mi6FPJ6qt8yASt2rWekJns+fFK8+V0rRtr 6D19k1GUN9bLw0rTX02aPbY/8BXAprPoQcMywD37dsi1kEIN2daheNU4lB84hjdzsXIY 70DTdJbQDgHpkqO6vueRipD6cD9hwkyWdbnFHbn5jvyC0J670far59VAA0weChCA//zP 5N2MdHoWrmOIJ2/EQYC2/gsiFBUL545+etq0zImScbSk9xSWE2KxlqovyLcjVYFHuJf/ O7oA== Received: by 10.60.18.114 with SMTP id v18mr21333859oed.34.1339004045443; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:34:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from page.encs.concordia.ca (page.encs.concordia.ca. [132.205.221.212]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k5sm352856oek.12.2012.06.06.10.34.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FCF948B.9040308@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:34:03 -0400 From: Vincent Aravantinos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120424 Thunderbird/10.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <20120606173100.GB1824@siouxsie> In-Reply-To: <20120606173100.GB1824@siouxsie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Distributed computing libraries On 06/06/2012 01:31 PM, oliver wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 12:53:07PM -0400, Thomas Braibant wrote: >> Maybe it would be interesting for the community if someone could sum >> up the pros and cons of each of this "libraries", and maybe give some >> information about their status (still in development, mature, etc)? > [...] > > Yes this would be fine. > And maybe "someone" could also mean some people... > ...maybe there are people out there, that now one or two of them well, > and other of these libs not or not well. > > ...so that the information can be gathered by a lot of people. > > But it would be fine to have some criteria for classifying. > > For example: > > - one / multicore > - local machine / distributed via net > - threads / processes > - just library calls, language extension, or seperate language > - toplevel-runtime / byte code / native-code > - necessity of code rewrite for local and remote/distributive stuff, > or possibility of transparent usage - compatibility with commonly used libraries -- Vincent Aravantinos Postdoctoral Fellow, Concordia University, Hardware Verification Group http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~vincent