From espillar at me.com  Tue Oct 13 19:24:15 2009
From: espillar at me.com (Earl Spillar)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:24:15 -0600
Subject: [Abqlispscheme] 2nd Anniversary of ABQ Lisp/Scheme!
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It is amazing that this is our second anniversary!   Perhaps I can  
bring some refreshments-  non-alcoholic, probably.   Or we could  
repair to a local shop of comestibles-  something like O'Neil's?

I think Rick is out of town this weekend-

Sadly I don't have anything to talk about.  I would be interested in  
learning more about *Lisp for next month, to the point that I would  
even be happy to read a manual and talk about it (next month, not this  
weekend!).   I googled  for a copy of the manual but haven't really  
found anything other than the simulator.  Did you have a link, Jim?

Specifically,  I am interested in using some lisp or scheme  
implementation or toolset to parallelize a large "real time"  
application on 1) a nice 24 core box that I have hidden away in a lab,  
and/or
2) one of those nice NVIDIA cards.

(1) Could involve something like just sending sexprs back and forth  
between a bunch of lisp listeners, but
(2) would probably involve something to what I think *lisp did, using  
a front end lisp to break the calculation down to chuncks that can be  
run on much simpler processors and then re-assembled.

Some  pundits say massive parallelism is in our future (present?), and  
I want to know how lisp can make it eaiser!

Earl

On Oct 6, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Jim Prewett wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> This month will be our 2nd Anniversary!  I can't believe, we've been
> together for two years now and there's been hardly any nagging or
> squabbles ;)
>
> Should we do anything special for the Anniversary?  Does anyone have
> anything they'd like to talk about?
>
> I believe our next meeting is scheduled for Sunday, Oct 18th.
>
> Jim
>
> James E. Prewett                    Jim at Prewett.org download at hpc.unm.edu
> Systems Team Leader           LoGS: http://www.hpc.unm.edu/~download/LoGS/
> Designated Security Officer         OpenPGP key: pub 1024D/31816D93
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>
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From rstehwien at gmail.com  Tue Oct 13 19:47:25 2009
From: rstehwien at gmail.com (Robert Stehwien)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:47:25 -0600
Subject: [Abqlispscheme] 2nd Anniversary of ABQ Lisp/Scheme!
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	<B2FE9103-F31F-4160-B30B-C200AC02E4BC@me.com>
Message-ID: <7e7886e20910131847x7bae57fake6adf7fd70422396@mail.gmail.com>

I've been experimenting with Clojure lately.  Clojure is Lisp that runs on
the JVM and was designed with concurrency in mind through the use (in part)
of immutable persistent data structures and a software transactional memory
system.  It was intentionally not designed to use distributed actors like
Erlang but does handle concurrency quite well.  Experiments have been run on
multiple hundred core Azul boxes.  You can also run across multiple JVMs and
machines transparently using Terracotta (
http://github.com/pjstadig/tim-clojure-1.0-snapshot).

I've only just started playing and it is the first Lisp I've tried to do any
real projects with.

--Robert

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Earl Spillar <espillar at me.com> wrote:

> It is amazing that this is our second anniversary!   Perhaps I can
> bring some refreshments-  non-alcoholic, probably.   Or we could
> repair to a local shop of comestibles-  something like O'Neil's?
>
> I think Rick is out of town this weekend-
>
> Sadly I don't have anything to talk about.  I would be interested in
> learning more about *Lisp for next month, to the point that I would
> even be happy to read a manual and talk about it (next month, not this
> weekend!).   I googled  for a copy of the manual but haven't really
> found anything other than the simulator.  Did you have a link, Jim?
>
> Specifically,  I am interested in using some lisp or scheme
> implementation or toolset to parallelize a large "real time"
> application on 1) a nice 24 core box that I have hidden away in a lab,
> and/or
> 2) one of those nice NVIDIA cards.
>
> (1) Could involve something like just sending sexprs back and forth
> between a bunch of lisp listeners, but
> (2) would probably involve something to what I think *lisp did, using
> a front end lisp to break the calculation down to chuncks that can be
> run on much simpler processors and then re-assembled.
>
> Some  pundits say massive parallelism is in our future (present?), and
> I want to know how lisp can make it eaiser!
>
> Earl
>
> On Oct 6, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Jim Prewett wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > This month will be our 2nd Anniversary!  I can't believe, we've been
> > together for two years now and there's been hardly any nagging or
> > squabbles ;)
> >
> > Should we do anything special for the Anniversary?  Does anyone have
> > anything they'd like to talk about?
> >
> > I believe our next meeting is scheduled for Sunday, Oct 18th.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > James E. Prewett                    Jim at Prewett.org download at hpc.unm.edu
> > Systems Team Leader           LoGS:
> http://www.hpc.unm.edu/~download/LoGS/<http://www.hpc.unm.edu/%7Edownload/LoGS/>
> > Designated Security Officer         OpenPGP key: pub 1024D/31816D93
> > HPC Systems Engineer III   UNM HPC  505.277.8210
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Abqlispscheme mailing list
> > Abqlispscheme at mailer.hpc.unm.edu
> > http://mailer.hpc.unm.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/abqlispscheme
>
>
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