Re: [Beowulf] Erlang as a language for Beowulf applications

2007-09-04 Thread Jim Lux
At 01:35 PM 9/4/2007, Jim Lux wrote: At 01:46 PM 9/3/2007, H.Vidal, Jr. wrote: Hello. I have been exploring a range of technologies for parallel applications, some production-level, some experimental. I am curious if anyone on this list has done any work with the language Erlang and/or conside

Re: [Beowulf] Erlang as a language for Beowulf applications

2007-09-04 Thread Jim Lux
At 01:46 PM 9/3/2007, H.Vidal, Jr. wrote: Hello. I have been exploring a range of technologies for parallel applications, some production-level, some experimental. I am curious if anyone on this list has done any work with the language Erlang and/or considers it viable for scientific apps. It s

Re: [Beowulf] Erlang as a language for Beowulf applications

2007-09-04 Thread Eric Shook
I am engaged in similar explorations and I too have found the Erlang language as a possible solution to scaling issues. I have been experimenting with the language for almost a month so my evidence below is not by any means conclusive. With that said in my opinion the language has a fatal flaw

Re: [Beowulf] Erlang as a language for Beowulf applications

2007-09-04 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
This language i do not know at all. However... ...as i can type at a keyboard i'll make the internet a more safer place :) I'd like to react onto this posting, even though this wasn't your question nor answers it, apologies for that. Please realize why people build a cluster. A cluster is