From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_POST autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3141ABBC4 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:58:00 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AswBAPRvnkmArgVgkWdsb2JhbACNC4dMAQEBAQkLCgcRBMAWB4QIBg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,242,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="21461031" Received: from expredir5.cites.uiuc.edu ([128.174.5.96]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 20 Feb 2009 17:57:59 +0100 Received: from axyr (aryx.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.236.106]) by expredir5.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n1KGvsI1020914; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:57:55 -0600 (CST) To: Atmam Ta Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] true parallelism / threads References: <167d0c900902200840n3b236bb7p411e054c49381486@mail.gmail.com> From: Yoann Padioleau Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:57:49 -0600 In-Reply-To: <167d0c900902200840n3b236bb7p411e054c49381486@mail.gmail.com> (Atmam Ta's message of "Fri\, 20 Feb 2009 10\:40\:46 -0600") Message-ID: <878wo111wy.fsf@aryx.cs.uiuc.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam: no; 0.00; parallelism:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 ocamlmpi:01 cheers:01 beginner's:01 bug:01 threads:01 beginners:01 caml-list:01 caml-list:01 computation:01 xleroy:01 writes:01 bin:01 Atmam Ta 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 > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs