On 8 Nov 2012, at 10:10, Andrew Holway <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It's all a bit academic now (ahem) as the MPI component is a Perl > program, and Perl isn't supported on BlueGene/Q. :-( > > huh? perl mpi? > > Interpreted language? High performance message passing interface? > > confused. Welcome to the wonderful world of bioinformatics and genomics "high performance" computing. Didn't you know that perl, python, ruby and java are all much faster than C and FORTRAN? Apparently it's a well-known fact, and what would I, a mere system administrator, know otherwise? Sarcasm mode off now. Tim -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
