FlightCaster and Backtype are two startups that have used Clojure for
distributed computing. If I were going to do some distributed
computing in Clojure, I would start by looking at the tools they use.
http://www.datawrangling.com/how-flightcaster-squeezes-predictions-from-flight-data
http://nathanmarz.com/blog/introducing-cascalog-a-clojure-based-query-language-for-hado.html
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Nick Zbinden <nick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I would like to talk about two things.
>
> General:
>
> I have a small project that has really easy to paralyzable problem so
> I think that a good place to start with parallel programming. Doning
> it on one pc is simple in clojure. So I tought to myself: You can
> distribute that. I have never done anything like that bevor (not in
> clojure or any other language).
>
> So I wanted to ask people. Have you done distributed stuff in clojure?
> Whats the easiest way distribute? Are there librarys to help or should
> I start reading into Java Distributet librarys?
>
> My Project:
>
> I think I quickly explain my project. Think you have pool of something
> (for example diffrent fighters for a game). I want to find out witch
> one is the best. So I want to write a function that takes some
> fighters and a function to compair two of the fighters and a function
> that decides how to play it out (K.O.-Mode, All-Vs-All, Playoff
> Style).
>
> To make this multithread my take on this would be to generat a future
> for every fight and then just do you match and deref if you need a
> winner. (is this a good idea?)
>
> (Warning the stuff I take about now is just guessing correct me if I
> talk total nosence)
> To distribut this I would have to need something like an Pool of
> Workers or some kind of executer that handles that stuff. My thinking
> was I could provid the executer as an I argument (the futures would
> just be send in to the executer the executer then decides to run it
> with normal threads or do distributed work.
>
> This would be a general library to find out the best of anything. In
> my example fighter with diffrent attribut configurations.
>
> Love to hear your thoughts.
>
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