-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/11/12 21:35, Tim Cutts wrote:
> Welcome to the wonderful world of bioinformatics and genomics > "high performance" computing. Didn't you know that perl, python, > ruby and java are all much faster than C and FORTRAN? Apparently > it's a well-known fact, and what would I, a mere system > administrator, know otherwise? In our case the issue isn't that the people are writing this code, it's just that they need code to solve problem X and that code happens to be written in Java/Perl/Python/R. It can also require 100's of GB of RAM too, just to make life more fun. cheers, Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCcjMcACgkQO2KABBYQAh+27ACfedP60UpuAd3QY8YPogCoLVmj liUAn2fWBJTNCRf2q57n9qheogeodfm6 =SXyr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
