On 04/02/2014 09:40 AM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
They need every greater computing density, tremendous storage density
and
responsiveness. I've not seen much MPI, but I see lots of things like
pub-sub models. They create languages > and love efficiency. They push
limits on everything.
Regarding languages, there is a Meetup group in London on using Julia,
well
attended by finance guys.
https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/1960-getting-started-with-julia-programming
Also of interest is the UK - HPC Meetup group, next meetign on 24th April
at Skills Matter.
Julia is growing, and rightfully so.
Julia: HPC BASIC
http://www.clustermonkey.net/Parallel-Programming/julia-hpc-basic.html
Yup ... we install it as part of our toolchain now
landman@metal:~$ /opt/scalable/bin/julia
_
_ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
(_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" to list help topics
| | | | | | |/ _` | |
| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0-prerelease+2146 (2014-03-22
22:36 UTC)
_/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit d988b01* (10 days old master)
|__/ | x86_64-linux-gnu
julia>
and are planning on using it for some analytical bits. The only major
issues for us right now are the lack of static compilation and a
"debugger" in a formal sense. The latter isn't as much of an issue,
because, hey, printf anyone?
Its a very cool language.
This said, someone showed me Chapel's progress last year, and I was
amazed at the simplicity and power of it. And while not open (as in
open source), kdb+ is a very nice (extraordinarily powerful) tool that
lots of our customers in finance also use. You can get info on Chapel
here: http://chapel.cray.com/ and download/use the 32 bit version of
kdb+ for free here: http://kx.com/software-download.php
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