On 2017/11/19 4:19, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:43:19AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: >> Hi Paul, >> >> Have you heard of "Julia" language? >> >> JFYI, >> As can be seen in its official page at https://julialang.org/ and a Wikipedia >> article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language), >> it looks like one of promising answers to perfbook's Section 2.2 "Parallel >> Programming Goals". >> >> As long as high-performance number crunching is concerned, it claims to have >> comparable performance to C, with a programming productivity much better >> than C + MPI. >> >> Note: I'm not a user of the language at the moment. I just heard of it at >> a twitter hashtag #julialang. >> >> I'd like you to check it up and (hopefully) update the above mentioned >> section in perfbook. > > I had heard of it, but I had not heard of it being seriously proposed > as the answer to Section 2.2. I have added it to todo.txt with your > Reported-by. > > Have you or has someone you know used this for a large parallel-programming > project? (Just looking for some real-world confirmation.) So you want a secondary-source info on the real-world use? I learned of Julia from Gen Kuroki's twitter activity since this June. He is a mathematician at Tohoku Univiersity, and experimenting/demonstrating Monte Carlo analysis of several statistic problems using Julia (on a Windows PC!). But what he is doing right now doesn't qualify as a _large_ parallel-programming project. There is a case-studies page at https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/, but this should be regarded as a primary source. One of the case study, "Deep Learning for Medical Diagnosis" at https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/ibm.html, looks like a collaboration of IBM and Juliacomputing. Could this qualify as a real-world large parallel programming example? Thanks, Akira > > Thanx, Paul > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe perfbook" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
