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by RandomTeaParty 55 days ago
Erlang is about reliability, hpc is about performance (literally in the name)
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Erlang is also about orchestration - which HPC tends to need a fair bit of once you are out of the realm of embarrassingly parallel problems
Most HPC job queue cluster partition batching I saw was stone-age primitive by comparison. =3