Am Freitag, den 20.02.2009, 10:40 -0600 schrieb Atmam Ta:
> 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?

ocamlnet contains a mature sunrpc implementation, and a framework for
multi-processing. It is used in professional cluster environments, e.g.
by the Wink people searcher.

See here for a commented example:
http://blog.camlcity.org/blog/parallelmm.html

Gerd
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