Is `x=nothing` a good idea, since `nothing` has no meaning and could be 
tested `x==nothing`?


On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 1:13:09 AM UTC+2, Tony Kelman wrote:
>
> Good question. I have not tried to do this, it's been about 6 years since 
> I last used a Windows cluster.
>
> Built-in, it looks like the only remote cluster manager available by 
> default in base Julia communicates over ssh - 
> http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/parallel-computing/#man-clustermanagers
>
> Is your cluster using Windows HPC Server? How would you usually create 
> parallel jobs and communicate between workers? Are you using Microsoft MPI? 
> There is an open pull request for adding support for Microsoft MPI to 
> MPI.jl (see https://github.com/JuliaParallel/MPI.jl/issues/51 and 
> https://github.com/JuliaParallel/MPI.jl/pull/52), but I don't think it's 
> actually been tested across multiple machines yet. Maybe support for 
> Windows HPC Server could be added to the ClusterManagers.jl package? Would 
> have to check the documentation both for ClusterManagers.jl 
> https://github.com/JuliaParallel/ClusterManagers.jl and Windows HPC 
> Server https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff919397.aspx to see 
> what would be needed.
>
> I don't think there's an easy way to delete a variable binding. You can 
> call workspace() which really just moves the current content of your Main 
> module to Main.LastMain.
>
> On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 1:32:58 PM UTC-7, Marcio Sales wrote:
>>
>> Hello all. New user here with a couple' questions. 
>> Is it possible to set up Julia for distributed computing in Windows 
>> cluster? How? 
>> Is there a way to delete a variable once created? Not just free mem 
>> making x=0. 
>>
>> Thank you. 
>> M.
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