From fusion at storytotell.org  Mon Jul 27 09:07:46 2009
From: fusion at storytotell.org (Daniel Lyons)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:07:46 -0600
Subject: [Abqlispscheme] Clojuratica: Clojure/Mathematica Bridge
Message-ID: <6E60C86A-4314-408E-8E46-4F792F08A459@storytotell.org>

Looks like someone up there's looking out for you, Earl!

http://clojuratica.weebly.com/

> 	? Clojuratica enables the seamless translation of native data  
> structures between Clojure and Mathematica, including high-precision  
> numbers, matrices, N-dimensional arrays, and arbitrary Java objects.
> 	? Clojuratica makes it easy to evaluate Mathematica expressions  
> from Clojure. Now Clojure programs can take advantage of  
> Mathematica's enormous range of numerical and symbolic algorithms  
> and its fast matrix algebra routines.
> 	? Clojuratica offers an elegant syntax that integrates closely with  
> Clojure.
> 	? Clojuratica builds a bridge between Clojure's state-of-the-art  
> concurrency features and Mathematica's existing parallel-computing  
> capabilities. It adds a high-performance, non-blocking concurrency  
> queue that mediates communication between Clojure and Mathematica.  
> Now it is easy to run a simulation in Clojure with 10,000  
> independent threads, each asynchronously evaluating processor- 
> intensive expressions in Mathematica. The computations will be  
> farmed out adaptively to however many Mathematica kernels are  
> available on any number of processor cores ? either locally or  
> across a cluster, grid, or network. The result is the  
> "Clojurization" of Mathematica's existing parallel-computing  
> capabilities.

It was first announced today, but already is at version 0.9 and  
apparently rather complete.

?
Daniel Lyons