perhaps time for an asterisk on the JuliaBox banner: "The Julia community is doing amazing things. We want you in on it!*"
* ... but not massively in parallel, consuming the resources of the community. there are positives and negatives to this sort of problem ... the fact that the problem can even arise says great things about the capabilities of the language and the service. well done ... On Sunday, October 25, 2015 at 2:11:25 AM UTC-7, Tanmay K. Mohapatra wrote: > > Hi, > > from the past few days we have had some users run large parallel programs > on JuliaBox sessions. While in some cases they succeed, we see a lot of > failures due to resource constraints. Though we have plans to enable large > programs in future, we do not allocate enough resources for that now. > > Also, since JuliaBox sessions run on shared infrastructure, this affects > other sessions that are co-located on the same machine. We will be putting > in place more checks and restrictions soon to prevent co-located sessions > from being impacted. > > We would request users to refrain from running large parallel programs for > now. If this is being done as part of some university class, please write > to us. Probably a separately provisioned cluster will be more appropriate > for that. > > - JuliaBox Team >
