Monday, March 3, 2014

Learning Erlang

It is based on the concept of Lambda calculus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus). A key distinction is the use of nested functions.

It is an appropriate abstraction when processing SPMD workloads. Compared to OpenMP/MPI it has built-in support for load balancing and fault tolerance; hence easier to develop.

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