There is a package "MPI.jl" that allows calling MPI from Julia. With this, any MPI-based algorithm can be translated to Julia, and the speed of MPI should be the same as for any other language.
-erik On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not aware of any such data comparing Julia on large-scale parallel tasks > with nontrivial communication patterns vs a more conventional HPC cluster > approach using MPI. There are some benchmark problems (generally intended > for serial or small-scale parallel execution, I believe) under test/perf, > but it might be more interesting if you have your own parallel application > you want to test with. > > Keep us posted as you get further into this. > > > On Monday, September 29, 2014 11:58:33 AM UTC-7, Kapil Agarwal wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I am looking to benchmark some standard parallel algorithms using Julia. I >> am thinking of comparing its performance with MPI and other parallel >> programming paradigms. Although I couldn't find much on any existing >> benchmarks, I was looking forward to any benchmarks that may have been done >> by the julia-dev team or in case any one is aware of any such benchmarks >> that could help me go about it. >> >> Thanks >> >> Kapil -- Erik Schnetter <[email protected]> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/eschnetter/
