Thanks for all the replies. All very informative. Some comments for Craig:
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Craig DeForest <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that way to me -- PDL, like those other vectorized languages, is > useful for comparatively > brain intensive (vs. cpu intensive) tasks such as data analysis, while really > heavy duty stuff like > (say) MHD modeling is best performed down in a lower level compiled language. > That said, I do > use PDL as a front end for our solar MHD model, which is written in C and can > take days to weeks > to complete a simulation in 8 CPUs. Heh, some theorists might be disappointed to hear that their work is not brain intensive ;-) But I think I get your meaning. I am actually interested in going toward the theory / computation side of astrophysics, so I was thinking about what role PDL could play in my work. I could use Fortran or C to run a simulation and then PDL as a front end to analyze the results, just as you do with your MHD model. Cheers, Daniel. -- No trees were destroyed in the generation of this email, but a large number of electrons were severely inconvenienced. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
