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Date: | 2009-12-22 (21:11) |
From: | Mike Lin <nilekim@g...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Looking for information regarding use of OCaml in scientific computing and simulation |
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> 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). At least in the U.S., a ten-page proposal will garner at least a million core-hours at a TeraGrid site for pretty much any non-crackpot academic project, free of charge (the systems are funded by the gov't). NSF graduate fellows get like 100k core-hours just to mess around, no PI and no particular project proposal needed. The infrastructure, documentation, and tech support at the TeraGrid sites generally assume MPI-based jobs, and give you access to [tens of] thousands of cores. That's a pretty compelling resource if the alternative is the relatively measly theoretical speedup from a multicore (8x, etc.). Mike