Hi Harish

Thanks for the suggestion, but I fail to see how is R related to my
problem. Can you explain?

All my code is written under Matlab, I do not consider converting to
any other language. I am looking for a way to distribute the
computation, taking advantage of the cluster of Matlab machines
available at my work place.

Regards
Brice

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Harish Pillay <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Brice -
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.10)
>
> iEYEARECAAYFAkvGn9wACgkQD4An23RoCeNv+wCdE0JWoOQ2KgfSG+8cq91eJv2w
> Vu8An1/rE2pgT6CY0Xm+9wyc0GXaKgF6
> =lTnV
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
>> Thanks for your interest. I think my situation is much simpler though:
>>  - splitting the task into parallel processes is straightforward (one
>> process for each combination of the dataset and parameters)
>>  - data and code transfer between nodes is also straightforward since
>> the file system is shared (NFS)
>>  - aggregating the result is also easy: a simple way is to save the
>> result in a file, properly labeled, and aggregate these files at the
>> end of the computation.
>>
>> The constraint is that the computation has to be done under Matlab (is
>> this possible with Hadoop? my guess is no).
>>
>> So the only 'difficulty' is to open matlab sessions on remote hosts,
>> send them some instructions, detect when the job is complete, reassign
>> a new job and so on. This seems very basic to me, I think I could do
>> it in a week or so. I have some other things to do though, hence the
>> job offer.
>
> Have you looked at the R Project (http://www.r-project.org/). Perhaps
> that is what you need?
>
> Harish
>

_______________________________________________
LUGS Mailing list - [email protected]
List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq
Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]

Reply via email to