From: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
To: Atmam Ta <atmamta2@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] true parallelism / threads
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:57:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wo111wy.fsf@aryx.cs.uiuc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <167d0c900902200840n3b236bb7p411e054c49381486@mail.gmail.com> (Atmam Ta's message of "Fri\, 20 Feb 2009 10\:40\:46 -0600")
Atmam Ta <atmamta2@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to evaluate ocaml for a project involving large scale numerical
> calculations. We would need parallel processing, i.e. a library that
> distributes jobs accross multiple processors within a machine and accross
> multiple PCs.
> Speed and easy programability are important. I have tried to search this issue
> first, but the postings I found were usually negative and 4-5 years old. On the
> other hand, I see a number of libraries in the Hump that by now might be taking
> care of these things.
>
> My question is: is ocaml good for parallel processing / hreaded computation,
> are there (mature) libraries or tools that let developers make use of multicore
> and multimachine environments?
MPI ...
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html#ocamlmpi
>
Then it's quite easy to define your own helpers on top of that.
Here is for example my poor's man google map-reduce in ocaml:
http://aryx.kicks-ass.org/~pad/darcs/commons/distribution.ml
> cheers,
> Atmam
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-20 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-20 16:40 Atmam Ta
2009-02-20 16:57 ` Yoann Padioleau [this message]
2009-02-20 16:59 ` [Caml-list] " Hezekiah M. Carty
2009-02-20 17:01 ` Will M. Farr
2009-02-20 17:35 ` Markus Mottl
2009-02-20 19:03 ` Gerd Stolpmann
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