[scilab-Users] Parallel computation - grid creation

[Sylvestre Ledru]

I am interested :)
Please let me know when you have something I could play with!

Sylvestre

Le vendredi 10 décembre 2010 à 17:54 +0100, Constellation Athome a
écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> okay, it's not an official solution (yet), but we're working on an
> implementation of Scilab as a BOINC app for our aerospace platform
> Constellation. We allready did our first tests and it looks promising.
> And with the release of Scilab 5.3.0 (stable) and it's minimum
> installation mode, we will do public tests for our subprojects that
> will use Scilab.
> 
> BOINC is a server/client system for distributed computing
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boinc but perhaps that's not what you are
> looking for.
> IF you decide to take this route, feel free to contact me. Perhaps I
> can help.
> 
> Andreas
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> AerospaceResearch.net/Constellation
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> 70372 Stuttgart / Germany
> Email: constellation at aerospaceresearch.net
> 
> 2010/12/9 Pedro Ledoux <p_ledoux at yahoo.com.br>
>         Hello. About paralelization why use a interpreted language
>         like Scilab? Are there some advantages? To numerical optimized
>         algorithms I prefer use a compiled language one, to numerical
>         application my favourite is Fortran. For such applications a
>         compiled code run much more faster than an interpreted one
>         like Matlab and Scilab. If you want to run this aplication
>         paralely probably it is too optimised and full of iterations.
>         
>         In a algorithm to the method FDTD to eletromagnetism use an
>         interpreted language is inviable if you want more than dozens
>         of thousands of  iterations. Codes written in Fortran are easy
>         to paralelise using an API called OpenMP.
>         
>         
>         
>         ______________________________________________________________
>         De: Mathieu Dubois <mathieu.dubois at limsi.fr>
>         Para: users at lists.scilab.org
>         Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 9 de Dezembro de 2010 9:46:22
>         Assunto: Re: [scilab-Users] Parallel computation - grid
>         creation
>         
>         
>         Hello,
>         
>         I once set up small cluster in my lab. I found 2 "cluster"
>         distributions that may help you.
>         
>         I know that OSCAR (http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/)
>         automatically ste up PVM. Nevertheless the project seems to
>         have difficulties to deliver a stable version for the 6
>         branch.
>         
>         You may also have look at ROCKS
>         (http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/) which seems more
>         dynamic (but I don't know of it has PVM included).
>         
>         I have never used PVM with scilab so I can't help you with
>         this. I know that there is a compile time option to enable it.
>         Maybe the default version has PVM...
>         
>         Mathieu
>         
>         On 12/08/2010 01:42 PM, sebastien salmon wrote:
>         > Hello,
>         > 
>         > I'm curently working on some metaheuristic optimization
>         problems using Scilab and external programs such as Dymola for
>         exemple.
>         > Those optimizations require a lot of computation witch could
>         be parallelized.
>         > I plan to set up a grid through the lab (up to 50 computers
>         under windows (xp-vista-seven) or linux (fedora - debian -
>         ubuntu)) and I'm loocking for some exemple of the install and
>         use of pwm under Scilab.
>         > 
>         > Thanks for your help,
>         > S.Salmon
>         
>         
>         
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