On 11/08/12 02:35, Tim Cutts wrote: > 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 > > I guess if your development time is sufficiently shorter than the equivalent compiled code, it could make sense. In Genome Sciences here at University of Washington, the grad students are taught Python and R, and there's a number of people who love the Python MPI bindings. We also have some C MPI users, but it's not as popular as Python.
I supposed what you can say is, for the right application, Python MPI certainly is faster than serial Python. Skylar _______________________________________________ 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
