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: > > > 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 >> >
