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> You are kinda concluding Python is dying because nobody runs in HPC iPython notebooks. By far the largest number of users (not core hours) on both of HPC sys
by physicsguy 5y ago
> You are kinda concluding Python is dying because nobody runs in HPC iPython notebooks.
By far the largest number of users (not core hours) on both of HPC systems I manage are using Python or R. A lot of them use Jupyter and RStudio through an OpenStack instance. So they're using exactly the sort of notebook interface you're talking about, coupled to 40/72 core nodes with 256/512gb of RAM.
I'm well aware of what Mathematica is capable of, I made use of it for all sorts of things in my research career. I used it a lot for generating input configurations for molecular dynamics simulations, plotting, symbolic algebra, generating Voronoi diagrams in post-processing of simulation data and more. All of that ran on a HPC cluster as part of the pipelines.
- brnt 5y agoI know Mathematica as the go-to tool for mathmaticians and theoretical physicists trying to work their way through proofs. HPC doesn't come into that game (performance isn't an issue), and frankly I didn't even know it could! Nobody used it for any heavy computational work.
- freemint 5y agoMhh, seems to be a culture thing. Out of curiosity what work scheduler do you use at that HPC center?
- physicsguy 5y agoWe use SLURM