Re: [Beowulf] Hadoop

2008-12-28 Thread Jeff Layton
Good points (as always). I've seen good examples of people using an interpreted language. It is easy to develop new code and algorithms and test them (I do that quite often). As you point out, this is great for some people who don't need to run the code many times. I've also seen people use the

Re: [Beowulf] Hadoop

2008-12-28 Thread Lux, James P
On 12/28/08 7:17 AM, "Jeff Layton" wrote: > I think I understand why people want the toolboxes - it makes coding easy. > From what I've seen people then stay with the "prototype" code and never move > to a compiled language such as C or Fortran. It's been a long, long time, but > I did all of

Re: [Beowulf] Hadoop

2008-12-28 Thread Jeff Layton
I think I understand why people want the toolboxes - it makes coding easy. From what I've seen people then stay with the "prototype" code and never move to a compiled language such as C or Fortran. It's been a long, long time, but I did all of my code prototyping for my PhD in Matlab and rewrot

Re: [Beowulf] Hadoop

2008-12-28 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Joe Landman" wrote: Hi Joe, hope you're feeling better! > This said, I hear of Java's use in HPC every now and then. We have a few people using Java on the clusters here, our suspicion is mainly because that's all they've been taught (or have taught themselves). :-( cheers, Chris -- C

Re: [Beowulf] Hadoop

2008-12-28 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Tim Cutts" wrote: > I can't speak for Joe's class, but when I've asked Matlab users here > about using Octave instead, they're generally not interested. Partly > this is a somewhat irrational "it doesn't have Matlab on the cover" > thing, but largely it's the Matlab toolboxes they wa

Re: [Beowulf] Hadoop

2008-12-28 Thread Tim Cutts
On 27 Dec 2008, at 9:04 pm, Jeff Layton wrote: I hate to tangent (hijack?) this subject, but I'm curious about your class poll. Did the people who were interested in Matlab consider Octave? I can't speak for Joe's class, but when I've asked Matlab users here about using Octave instead, t