<t>It's interesting that for the most computationally intensive examples in that textbook, Chapter 11 on Stochastic Programming, the author chooses not to use MATLAB at all, but instead uses AMPL. Modeling languages can be much easier to use than imperative programming languages for expressing large...

<r>Sounds like you want the equivalent of what would be a shell script and crontab on a *nix platform. Maybe a .bat file that scripted out your desired Office-related activities combined with CRON for windows (<URL url="http://cronw.sourceforge.net/">http://cronw.sourceforge.net/</URL>) to execute t...

<t>Quote As for PS3 clusters, I think in the short time this will be popular, but word from researchers in the industry is that ultimately the cell is going to lose out to GPU. Well, the PS3 itself only gives you 128 MB of XDR ram per chip that is accessible to the user, so using a PS3 cluster can b...

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<t>Hobbyist indeed...don't think it is a full substitute...because it will not make full use of that new 64-bit machine that you just bought:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: What platforms does Mathematica Home Edition support?Mathematica Home Edition i...

Have you looked into using the Enthought Python Distribution? It comes pre-built with an extensive list of libraries. already included.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: farmerSometimes I rent servers from other people, so obviously I have to telnet in with putty. Suppose I want a log something like the Performance tab in the Windows Task Manager. I want to see processor load, peak processor and memory usage, that kind of thing. And it ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: Traden4AlphaQuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: Traden4AlphaQuoteOriginally posted by: Cuchulainn Edit: what is this?My APL has 20 years of rust, but it looks John Conway's Life cellular automata.Yes, APL can be what some wags call a write-on...

For a interesting commentary on APL, I recommend that you read a couple of sections out of Richard Bookstaber's "A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation". The section entitled the "The APL Cult" would probably interest you.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: ZmeiGorynychDoes anyone have firsthand experience with python for data exploration/prototyping/playing around with ideas (especially on datasets >> 100MB)? I've used matlab so far, but its inability to cope with mildly large datasets is starting to really annoy me (I gi...

<t>It's been just over two years since this thread lost its momentum, and I was wondering if people still hold the same opinions on the nature of future software development given changes in hardware that are here now or coming (multicore, gpu's, fpga's, special purpose processors-i.e. Cell BE, acce...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnWith C++ - if that is the language you want - you can use OpenMP and MPI, which are free. The cost is the time needed to learn them.We had a few interesting discussions here on this subject but they fizzled out.And moving from Sequential programming to paralle...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: mizhaelQuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperget a parallel machine ?at most 1.5x on a dual core/cpu computer, and needs too much work to debug... and maintain(say your boss wants to change math formulae, you have to do that all over again...)Get a parallel machine....and a...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperQuoteOriginally posted by: ZmeiGorynychumi.com maintains a reasonably comprehensive dissertation archive, and will sell them to you for $50 or so apiece. In particular, they have this one.Nice line of business.This is Publishe...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperQuoteOriginally posted by: ZmeiGorynychumi.com maintains a reasonably comprehensive dissertation archive, and will sell them to you for $50 or so apiece. In particular, they have this one.Nice line of business.When I handed in my dissertation after my defense, th...