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From: William Chesters <williamc@paneris.org>
To: "David McClain" <dmcclain@azstarnet.com>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Cluster Multiprocessing
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:46:38 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14871.62831.674399.871815@beertje.william.bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000501c0504d$796a3000$210148bf@dylan>

David McClain writes:
 > 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.

Have you seen Starfish?  I haven't ever looked at it in detail but
it's at least in the same general area of ocaml + cluster MP:

http://dsl.cs.technion.ac.il/Starfish/



  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-11-20 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-17  4:18 David McClain
2000-11-17 12:44 ` reig
2000-11-20 10:45   ` Windows CE Christophe Raffalli
2000-11-20 19:32     ` Francois Rouaix
2000-11-17 23:51 ` Cluster Multiprocessing Vitaly Lugovsky
2000-11-20  2:39   ` Ward Wheeler
2000-11-19 15:46 ` William Chesters [this message]
2000-11-20 13:27 ` jean-marc alliot

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