wchogg: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Dougal Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/10/3 Galchin, Vasili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hello, > >> > >> One of my interests based on my education is "grand challenge science". > >> Ok .. let's take the CERN Hadrian Accelerator. > >> > >> Where do you think Haskell can fit into the CERN Hadrian effort > >> currently? > >> > >> Where do you think think Haskell currently is lacking and will have to > >> be improved in order to participate in CERN Hadrian? > > > > Is that the experiment where Picts are accelerated to just short of > > the speed of light in order to smash through to the Roman Empire? ;-) > > > > I don't know what the main computational challenges are to the LHC > > researchers. The stuff in the press has mostly been about > > infrastructure --- how to store the gigabytes of data per second that > > they end up keeping, out of the petabytes that are produced in the > > first place (or something). > > Well, with the LHC efforts I don't think a technology like Haskell > really has a place...at least not now. Even just a few years back, > when I worked on this stuff, we were still doing lots of simulation in > preparation for the actual live experiment and Haskell might have been > a good choice for some of the tools. All of the detector simulation > was written in C++, because C++ is the new FORTRAN to physicists, and > you ain't seen nothing till you've seen a jury-rigged form of lazy > evaluation built into a class hierarchy in C++. Now, would the C++ > based simulation have run faster than a Haskell based one? Quite > possibly. On the other hand, I remember how many delays and problems > were caused by the sheer complexity of the codebase. That's where a > more modern programming language might have been extremely helpful.
How about EDSLs for producing high assurance controllers, and other robust devices they might need. I imagine the LHC has a good need for verified software components... _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
