[erlang-questions] Erlang and/or MPI

[Ivan Uemlianin]

Dear All

Thank you for your very helpful comments.

I certainly don't want to shoehorn erlang in where it's not appropriate. 
  I think (especially after reading these comments and further 
ponderation) that my first step should be to understand the resource and 
how best to use it (eg before Tuesday I'd never heard of Infiniband).

I had thought to use erlang as a kind of 'project manager' to 
orchestrate the ways tasks are shared between nodes/machines/cores.  If 
MPI already does this, I should probably try both approaches, and 
compare for performance and ease of writing & reading.

Writing an Infiniband driver for erlang sounds interesting but it would 
probably be a diversion.

However, investigating languages good at numerical computations (esp. 
Haskell and Fortran) would probably not be a diversion.  Fortran can 
talk MPI directly it seems.  If Fortran is not too painful to write and 
read, that might be a monolingual solution.

Best wishes

Ivan


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