<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I hate to tangent (hijack?) this subject, but I'm curious about your class poll. Did the people who were interested in Matlab consider Octave? <br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Jeff<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Joe Landman <landman@scalableinformatics.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Jeff Layton <laytonjb@att.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Gerry Creager <gerry.creager@tamu.edu>; Beowulf Mailing List <beowulf@beowulf.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 27,
2008 11:11:20 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Beowulf] Hadoop</font><br><br>N.B. the recent MPI class we gave suggested that we need to re-tool it <br>to focus more upon Fortran than C. There was no interest in Java from <br>the class I polled. Some researchers want to use Matlab for their work, <br>but most university computing facilities are loathe to spend the money <br>to get site licenses for Matlab. Unfortunate, as Matlab is a very cool <br>tool (been playing with it first in 1988 ...) its just not fast. The <br>folks at Interactive Supercomputing might be able to help with this with <br>their compiler.<br><br></div></div></div></body></html>