Bingo, the code changes so fast that parallelism is best left to the scheduler, for now...
James Lowey Director, NCS TGen On Nov 8, 2012, at 6:52 AM, Skylar Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
