[BioC] pooling for parallel hierarchical operations

Steve Lianoglou mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 23:35:16 CET 2012


On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
> Thanks for setting this up. I think we might want to look into how other
> high-level languages have approached these issues. The user will need some
> high-level control. For example, only the user is going to know how much
> memory a job will consume. I'm sure there are heuristics and simplifying
> assumptions/constraints that will go a long way towards autonomy though.

I've got ten bucks on Michael coming back 2-3 weeks from now with his
own bioakkaR library:
http://akka.io

Who's in?

-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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 | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
 | Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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