| FastDL: An MPI interface for IDL [message #38351] |
Wed, 03 March 2004 07:43 |
Liam Gumley
Messages: 473
Registered: November 1994
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Has anyone tried this?
http://www.techxhome.com/products/FastDL/
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Cluster Computing with RSI's IDL
When analyzing large data sets or performing very complex computations, some
analyses may take so long they cannot be accomplished with symmetric
multi-processing and multithreading. To solve this challenge, Tech-X
Corporation is working with Research Systems Inc., building on their
Interactive Data Language (IDL) technology and developing FastDL, an add-on
library that provides a subset of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) from
within the IDL interpreter.
FastDL coordinates IDL script code through an MPI interface, letting you
delegate computation tasks to machines in the cluster, even clusters with
heterogeneous hardware. With FastDL, you can preserve and extend your
investment in current IDL computational infrastructure and leverage
inexpensive, powerful commodity computational hardware to significantly
shorten result and resolution time.
Built on MPI, the standard message-passing interface for distributed-memory
parallel computing, FastDL is a standard paradigm for supercomputing that
enables interactive analysis and visualization of huge data sets on multiple
processors in parallel. Several well-known physics laboratories, including
Sandia National Laboratories, Utah State University and General Atomics, are
using FastDL to help them shorten their analysis and visualization time.
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Looks interesting...
Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/
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