Am Freitag, den 20.02.2009, 10:40 -0600 schrieb Atmam Ta: > Hi, > > I am trying to evaluate ocaml for a project involving large scale > numerical calculations. We would need parallel processing, i.e. a > library that distributes jobs accross multiple processors within a > machine and accross multiple PCs. > Speed and easy programability are important. I have tried to search > this issue first, but the postings I found were usually negative and > 4-5 years old. On the other hand, I see a number of libraries in the > Hump that by now might be taking care of these things. > > My question is: is ocaml good for parallel processing / hreaded > computation, are there (mature) libraries or tools that let developers > make use of multicore and multimachine environments?
ocamlnet contains a mature sunrpc implementation, and a framework for multi-processing. It is used in professional cluster environments, e.g. by the Wink people searcher. See here for a commented example: http://blog.camlcity.org/blog/parallelmm.html Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann * Viktoriastr. 45 * 64293 Darmstadt * Germany g...@gerd-stolpmann.de http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de Phone: +49-6151-153855 Fax: +49-6151-997714 ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
