Re: [Vala] Parallel programming in Vala?

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On 27/05/2014 14:12, Costas Smaragdakis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently a PhD student at University of Crete (Dept. of Applied
> Mathematics).
>
> So far, I have been developing my code mainly in Matlab and sometimes in
> C.
> However, I would like to get rid of the licenses and use only free
> software.
>
> My first thought was to develop exclusively in C (I love it) but it
> would be a step backward for my productivity.
>
> Then, I considered the Python language as a good alternative but
> I don't like its syntax and I would prefer to avoid scripting languages.
>
> I am a big fan of Gnome 3, so I thought that using of the Vala
> programming language for my research programming would be a good idea. I
> looked up in the vala documentation and really I love the features of
> Vala. 
>
> Nevertheless, I wonder if I could use Vala for parallel computations
> using a parallel toolbox like mpich, openmpi or CUDA.This is significant
> for me because I am going to run my code using the facilities of
> University. Does someone use Vala for scientific calculations? I already
> have found out that there is a gsl port to Vala!  
There's no such thing in Vala and I wouldn't suggest you to use Vala for
this kind of job.
Look for c++, fortran, java and such.
The best you can do in Vala is spawning processes or threads.

Best regards,