On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 08:56 +1100, Damian McGuckin wrote: > […] > > While a long way down the track, the team have a big enough bundle of > work > on the plate making sure it is the best HPC language ever.
To be honest, I think it is already that, but that doesn't mean it cannot be even better. The question is "what is HPC". Whilst supercomputers have budgets the size of many countries national debt, and most code is still Fortran or C++, this world is still a relatively small arena. Where the real traction is is "Big Data" which is currently dominated by Apache Spark, Hadoop, Scala, Java, Python. The issue is that Chapel and X10 really should be in there dominating this market sweeping the JVM and Python stuff aside. […] > Languages suitable to be write compilers are often more about > elegance > than machissmo, at least in the past. The issue is having the facilities to parse, build and process ASTs, and generate code. Any language can do this if it is Turing complete. But can it be done easily. I would suggest that processing graphs is one of the things HPC often has to do. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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