Re: Fw: [linuxNUS] Internship offer

> There are a few out there, but most are proprietary AFAIK, for good reason
> cause google as patented it.

Sylvain, what about -

http://hadoop.apache.org/

Please do some research before spreading FUD.

Kelvin Quee
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Sylvain Bougerel
<[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems to me a map/reduce implementation can solve your problem.
>
> There are a few out there, but most are proprietary AFAIK, for good reason
> cause google as patented it.
>
> So that can be a good point of departure to solve your problem. Althought
> depending on the flexibility required, it may take some time to write.
>
> Sylvain.
>
> On 14 Apr 2010 17:24, "Luther Goh Lu Feng" <elfgoh-/[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Pardon the email formatting... apparently gmail and yahoo mail don't work
> very well together :(
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>> From: Brice Rebsamen <[email protected]>
>> To: linuxnus <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wed, April 14, 2010 4:52:06 PM
>> Subject: [linuxNUS] Internship offer
>>
>> Hi
>
> I am a research scientist at Temasek Lab (eng. faculty), working
>> in
> cognitive science. I am looking for a programmer for a short job.
>> I
> haven't talked to the management yet if this could be paid, but there
> is
>> a good chance that some money can be awarded for it. In any case
> that would
>> be a valuable experience and it will definitely improve
> your resume. And who
>> knows, that might result in a longer contract
> (Research assistant for
>> instance). Here is the task to achieve.
>
> We have several linux
>> workstations with matlab installed. However we
> do not have the distributed
>> computing toolbox. So I want to create a
> workaround. Typically, I want to
>> test one function on several data
> sets with several parameters, and combine
>> the result to find the best
> combination of parameters. This is a very
>> parallel task by nature. I
> believe that it would not be too difficult to
>> write a script that
> would manage connections with all available workstations
>> and feed them
> with data. This script could be written in any language you
>> are
> familiar with. C might be a good choice because of Matlab's
>> C
> interface (search doc on the engopen function for more info). If
>> not
> using the C API, the program could rely on rsh to launch remote
>> matlab
> sessions.
>
> Don't hesitate to contact me for more info, or send
>> me your resume.
> Also, forward this mail to your friends who might be
>> interested.
>
> Regards
> Brice
>> Rebsamen
>
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