From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA31339 for caml-red; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:56:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA04688 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:52:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from sirius-b.ihep.su (sirius-b.ihep.su [194.190.161.4]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eAHNqEj28742 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:52:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from ihep.su (ihep.ihep.su [194.190.161.127]) by sirius-b.ihep.su (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id eAHNq7c12644; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:52:07 +0300 (MSK) X-Sender: vsl@ontil.ihep.su Received: from ontil.ihep.su by ihep.su (5.65v4.0/RELCOM-IHEPv4.7) id AA17528; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:52:05 +0300 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:51:12 +0300 (MSK) From: Vitaly Lugovsky To: David McClain Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Cluster Multiprocessing In-Reply-To: <000501c0504d$796a3000$210148bf@dylan> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, David McClain wrote: > I am about to embark on a project that seeks to reduce the computation time > of a large problem from 100+ hours to less than 20 minutes. This is > initially though to require a cluster of multiprocessors using either a > Beowulf architecture, or a large, shared memory, message passing, > architecture. I am interested in the suitability (or otherwise) of OCaml to > such computations and the experiences of anyone else in this group on such > architectures. Garbage collection across nodes in a shared memory > architecture seems like a particularly daunting problem. > > Any responses would be appreciated. Shared memory architectures is just the same as ordinary multithereaded environment. And, there are PVM3 and MPI bindings for OCaml, if you want to use message-passing clustering. -- V.S.Lugovsky aka Mauhuur (http://ontil.ihep.su/~vsl) (UIN=45482254)