2009/2/20 Atmam Ta <atmamta2@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to evaluate ocaml for a project involving large scale numerical
> calculations. We would need parallel processing, i.e. a library that
> distributes jobs accross multiple processors within a machine and accross
> multiple PCs.
> Speed and easy programability are important. I have tried to search this
> issue first, but the postings I found were usually negative and 4-5 years
> old. On the other hand, I see a number of libraries in the Hump that by now
> might be taking care of these things.
>
> My question is: is ocaml good for parallel processing / hreaded computation,
> are there (mature) libraries or tools that let developers make use of
> multicore and multimachine environments?
>
> cheers,
> Atmam

There are several libraries available which seem to be reasonably
usable in their current state.
Distributed processing across multiple machines:
- OCAMLMPI - http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html
- OCamlP3l - http://camlp3l.inria.fr/eng.htm
- BSML - http://frederic.loulergue.eu/research/bsmllib/bsml-0.4beta.html

Fork-based parallelism for exploiting multiple cores/processors locally:
- Prelude.ml - http://github.com/kig/preludeml/tree/master

There is also JoCaml (http://jocaml.inria.fr/), which is an extension
of OCaml itself.  JoCaml has examples for various distributed
processing methods.

Hez

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Hezekiah M. Carty
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science