Re: [Caml-list] Looking for information regarding use of OCaml in scientific computing and simulation

2009-12-22 Thread Mike Lin
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Jon Harrop wrote: > Sure but it is worth remembering that distributed parallelism across clusters > is a tiny niche compared to multicores. I think the balance is slightly different than this in scientific/research computing (the original subject of this thread).

Re: [Caml-list] Looking for information regarding use of OCaml in scientific computing and simulation

2009-12-22 Thread Jon Harrop
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 13:11:58 Eray Ozkural wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > However, if you are  interested in merely using the system > > to do your "real" work, then writing message-passing code > > is an utter waste of time -- its difficult, time-consum

Re: [Caml-list] Looking for information regarding use of OCaml in scientific computing and simulation

2009-12-22 Thread Eray Ozkural
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Eray Ozkural wrote: > However, let's not forget about the new GPU architectures, which are > sort of hybrid. The newer GPUs will have more exotic on-chip > interconnection networks. Some more clarification, as the number of cores increase, you would expect more of

Re: [Caml-list] Looking for information regarding use of OCaml in scientific computing and simulation

2009-12-22 Thread Gerd Stolpmann
> Have you ever tried writing a significant or complex algo using > message passing? Its fun if you have nothing better to to -- > its a good intellectual challenge. You can even learn some > interesting computer science while you do it. > > However, if you are interested in merely using the sy

Re: [Caml-list] Looking for information regarding use of OCaml in scientific computing and simulation

2009-12-22 Thread Eray Ozkural
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Linas Vepstas wrote: > However, if you are  interested in merely using the system > to do your "real" work, then writing message-passing code > is an utter waste of time -- its difficult, time-consuming, error > prone, hard to balance and optimize & tune, works wel

Re: [Caml-list] Looking for information regarding use of OCaml in scientific computing and simulation

2009-12-21 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi Lukasz, Yikes! Care to start an argument on my behalf? 2009/12/20 Lukasz Stafiniak : > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Dario Teixeira > Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM > Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml is  broken > To: Erik Rigtorp > Cc: caml-list > > > Hi, > >> It's

Re: [Caml-list] Looking for information regarding use of OCaml in scientific computing and simulation

2009-11-29 Thread Jon Harrop
On Wednesday 25 November 2009 11:05:14 David MENTRE wrote: > - Code snippets of OCaml used in scientific computing or simulation, > typically for advocacy like "it takes 10 lines in OCaml to do this, > you would use 50 lines in C++ to do the same thing"; You may find the examples from OCaml for S

Re: [Caml-list] Looking for information regarding use of OCaml in scientific computing and simulation

2009-11-29 Thread Jan Kybic
> I'm considering doing a short presentation of OCaml to my colleagues > in my research lab. They are working in the telecommunication and > power electronic sectors, mainly doing signal processing and > simulations. I know OCaml[1] but not specifically those domains. > > Therefore, I'm looking for

Re: [Caml-list] Looking for information regarding use of OCaml in scientific computing and simulation

2009-11-25 Thread blue storm
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:05 PM, David MENTRE wrote: >  - My colleagues are working a lot with Mathlab, is there any synergy > there (bindings, ways to integrate Mathlab within OCaml code or vice > versa, ...)? See OcamlMex : http://ocamlmex.gforge.inria.fr/ When working with scientific softwar

[Caml-list] Looking for information regarding use of OCaml in scientific computing and simulation

2009-11-25 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, I'm considering doing a short presentation of OCaml to my colleagues in my research lab. They are working in the telecommunication and power electronic sectors, mainly doing signal processing and simulations. I know OCaml[1] but not specifically those domains. Therefore, I'm looking for re