How does Incanter work on HPC? R is pretty awful from that point of view, and if there ever will be room for a specialised statistical language it's got to be able to do massive number crunching.
I've heard bad things of JVM for tightly coupled jobs on HPC (though I know there's been some improvement: e.g. a lot of work done by EPCC in Edinburgh). Does Clojure manages to offer a good parallel implementation on top of the JVM or has no work been done in this area?
According to the website, Parallel Colt supports multicore machines. There's no mention of MPI though. As far as I know, Incanter only wraps it, so it does not influence the performance that much..
I've heard bad things of JVM for tightly coupled jobs on HPC (though I know there's been some improvement: e.g. a lot of work done by EPCC in Edinburgh). Does Clojure manages to offer a good parallel implementation on top of the JVM or has no work been done in this area?