For anyone wishing to run large parallel programs I may be able to help - 
I'm working on a cloud computing platform for Julia that takes care of 
provisioning and managing all resources. More info at https://evoqus.com . 

It's currently in beta, get in touch if interested.


Best,

Iliyan

On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 6:41:57 PM UTC, cdm wrote:
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> perhaps time for an asterisk on the JuliaBox banner:
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> "The Julia community is doing amazing things. We want you in on it!*"
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> * ... but not massively in parallel, consuming the resources of the 
> community.
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> 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.
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> well done ...
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> On Sunday, October 25, 2015 at 2:11:25 AM UTC-7, Tanmay K. Mohapatra wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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