Awesome. Congrats!
On Jul 2, 2012 10:49 PM, "David Mertens" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:10 AM, David Mertens 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Maggie -
>>
>> For sparse matrix support, see http://p3rl.org/PDL::CCS::Nd. This was
>> one of Bryan Jurish's many modules posted late last year/early this year. I
>> have not examined the internals to see how it works or what sort of hit on
>> speed one has to take to use the library, but it's at least available as a
>> starting point.
>>
>> As for cross-machine parallelization, the only solution of which I am
>> aware is http://p3rl.org/PDL::Parallel::MPI. That requires an MPI setup,
>> though, and I had to tweak the Makefile.PL in order to get it to run on
>> UIUC's local cluster. But the underlying code worked. As a matter of fact,
>> I tried to contact Darin a few years ago to see if I could take over
>> maintenance of the module (because the changes to Makefile.PL are pretty
>> trivial), but he never got back to me. I wonder if I should follow up on
>> that...
>>
>
> I spend some time hunting around LinkedIn and found Darin. He no longer
> uses Per and was happy to transfer CPAN ownership of PDL::Parallel::MPI to
> me, so now I can finally start fixing Makefile.PL! :-D
>
>
>> David
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Maggie X <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> For "big data" we need sparse matrix and maybe even more importantly,
>>> the ability to parallelize across machines. PDL is great if the data can
>>> fit in memory on a single machine. For big data, the assumption should be
>>> that the data will NOT fit in memory and multiple machines are necessary to
>>> finish processing in a reasonable amount of time. I would love to see more
>>> work in that direction, if possible.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Maggie
>>>
>>
>> --
>>  "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
>>   Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
>>   by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>  "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
>   Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
>   by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
>
>
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