[erlang-questions] Erlang meets physics

[Tony Rogvall]

Wow :-)

I like to see that, is it anywhere on git hub? 

Very early in early in my Erlang career I help a math friend to calculate betti numbers 
(simply put, calculate number of holes in an object given a triangulation of a surface description ) 
The oldest file is dated Jun 11 1992 :-)
I have also implemented the AKS (prime number) algorithm in, it beat the C++ code without even
trying to use all the cores (linear speedup)
Just to mention a few of the math related stuff I have been using Erlang for.

I totally agree

Lots of fun!

/Tony


On 15 mar 2012, at 19:56, pietje wrote:

> Hi All,
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> Just my 2 cents.
> I am an ex physicist too. Used to do research on QCD (Drell-Yan process) calculating Feynman diagrams.
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> For a couple of years I've been busy writing an erlang program to handle Feynman diagrams algebraically. Lots of fun. 
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> regards, Pieter Rijken
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> On Monday, 12 March 2012 02:34:04 UTC+1, Jared Kofron wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've been using Erlang at work for a few years now, and I thought I'd throw my experience out there, as 
> my application is a little different than what you usually see on the list - I am a graduate student at the
> Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Washington, and use Erlang extensively
> in my work.
> In my experience, something that Erlang is really great at but doesn't receive much attention for these days
> is managing and interacting with hardware.  In any physics experiment of even modest sizes, you wind up
> having to keep track of the state of various pieces of equipment, often modify that state, and constantly 
> interrogate particular values.  For example, we might want to change the current in a magnetic trap, turn
> that trap off altogether, or simply read back the voltage drop across our superconducting magnet.
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> So far, I have deployed Erlang in this zone for two separate experiments (SNO+, a large particle physics
> experiment in Canada) and Project 8 (a small nuclear physics experiment here in Seattle).  Both times have
> been great successes, and I have found the reception of Erlang in this market to be great.  In general, what
> I have done is wrap a hardware management layer with some kind of outside world interface. For SNO+, we
> used Webmachine and RESTful control, and for Project 8 we actually conduct all communication 
> by using CouchDB as a message passing interface.
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> Physicists are suspicious creatures, but once you demonstrate the feature set that you get for practically
> free with OTP, they see the advantage pretty quickly.  On top of that, the development cycle for sophisticated 
> applications can be greatly reduced - more than once it made my group float to the top in terms of meeting
> goals.
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> In short, as far as I am concerned, Erlang has found a new niche in the world of Physics, and I intend to 
> spread the word as much as I can!
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> Jared Kofron
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