ISC announced this week that they’ve revved Star-P
Star-P 2.6 is a parallel application development platform that lets scientists, engineers and analysts create algorithms and models on their desktops using familiar mathematical tools – such as MATLAB®, Python and R – and then run them instantly and interactively on parallel computers with little to no modification. Star-P eliminates the need to re-program applications in C, Fortran or MPI in order to run on parallel systems, resulting in huge productivity gains.
The major new features in my mind are:
- New code optimization tools for faster app performance
- Expanded Python support
- R language “preview” client
- Windows Vista support
For a full list and details, check out the announcement.
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John – thanks for your note. One thing I wanted to share – at the SC07 show in Reno, we were previewing these features, including live demos of parallelizing Python and R code.
For R, we did a “nearest correlation matrix” calculation; for Python we did some basic wave propagation calculation, and an image processing app which parallelized a module from the open source community.
Here’s the page: http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/missedSC07/
Cheers,
ilya
link’s broken…should be:
http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/getpr.php?id=259