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Mat Harris mat.harris at genestate.comThu Jan 2 14:41:37 PST 2003
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:28:06PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > no, you don't have to use C, or even know the first thing > about programming. but unless you have an already-parallel > program, you won't get any speedup. the whole point of > compute clusters is speedup (either minimizing the elapsed > runtime for parallel programs, or maximizing the throughput > of collections of serial programs.) note that clusters are > also used for high-availability - failover and the like. > they're QUITE different, and have very little to do with > compute clusters. ok then so I really need to learn C properly for it to be useful. I am already a fairly decent perl programmer. Is there anyway I could write an MPI interface in Perl? -- Mat Harris OpenGPG Public Key ID: C37D57D9 mat.harris at genestate.com www.genestate.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20030102/5d4b4508/attachment.bin
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