Re: fastest lisp machine?
Andrew Shalit <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:17:06 -0500
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--===============4712722843385223288== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_78C30595-D719-4538-8585-419ECCDF2D8E" --Apple-Mail=_78C30595-D719-4538-8585-419ECCDF2D8E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Hi Mark -=20 I'll defer to others on the hardware. For taking advantage of multiple = cores I'd recommend Clozure Common Lisp (formerly OpenMCL). It has = native threads, which allows your software to run on multiple cores = simultaneously. Clozure CL is free and open source. You can get it at = http://ccl.clozure.com. Yours, Andrew Shalit Clozure Associates On Jan 13, 2014, at 11:26 PM, Mark Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >=20 > I=92d like to get the fastest lisp machine possible (within reason) = for running the cl-http server as well as number-crunching-heavy = simulations. Which hardware should I get? Are there are versions of = common lisp that can take advantage of the multi-core multiprocessor = architectures the new hardware (e.g. the new Apple desktop) is coming = out with? >=20 > ------------------------------- > Mark Klein > http://cci.mit.edu/klein >=20 > Principal Research Scientist > Center for Collective Intelligence > Massachusetts Institute of Technology >=20 > Visiting Researcher > Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group > University of Zurich >=20 > _______________________________________________ > info-mcl mailing list > [email protected] > http://clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/info-mcl --Apple-Mail=_78C30595-D719-4538-8585-419ECCDF2D8E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi = Mark - <div><br></div><div>I'll defer to others on the hardware. = For taking advantage of multiple cores I'd recommend Clozure = Common Lisp (formerly OpenMCL). It has native threads, which = allows your software to run on multiple cores = simultaneously.</div><div><br></div><div>Clozure CL is free and open = source. You can get it at <a = href=3D"http://ccl.clozure.com">http://ccl.clozure.com</a>.</div><div><br>= </div><div>Yours,</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew = Shalit</div><div>Clozure Associates</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 13, = 2014, at 11:26 PM, Mark Klein <<a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div>I=92d like = to get the fastest lisp machine possible (within reason) for running the = cl-http server as well as number-crunching-heavy simulations. Which = hardware should I get? Are there are versions of common lisp that can = take advantage of the multi-core multiprocessor architectures the new = hardware (e.g. the new Apple desktop) is coming out with?</div><br><div = apple-content-edited=3D"true"> <div style=3D"letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: = auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><div style=3D"letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: = normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: = 0px;"><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: = 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: = 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: = 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;">-------------------------------<br>Mark Klein<br><a = href=3D"http://cci.mit.edu/klein">http://cci.mit.edu/klein</a><br><br>Prin= cipal Research Scientist<br>Center for Collective = Intelligence<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br><br>Visiting = Researcher<br>Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems = Group<br>University of = Zurich</div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div> </div> <br></div>_______________________________________________<br>info-mcl = mailing list<br><a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br>http://cl= ozure.com/mailman/listinfo/info-mcl<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body= ></html>= --Apple-Mail=_78C30595-D719-4538-8585-419ECCDF2D8E-- --===============4712722843385223288== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ info-mcl mailing list [email protected] http://clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/info-mcl --===============4712722843385223288==--