From: umitanuki <yasagure@...>
Date: 2005-10-02T01:12:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Simulation / modelling lib?

Hi,

I guess simulation / modelling mean 'numeric simulations' such as FEM or 
CFD.
I also hope that we could code those libraries with Ruby.
And what about NArray??

http://www.ir.isas.ac.jp/~masa/ruby/index-e.html

Ruby is very powerful and easy to code,
but the most important things to worry are:
1) speed
2) GUI
for 1), parallel calculation or grid computing is one of solutions.
And for 2), pre/post system are more difficult than those like C++ and Java.

umitanuki


david@vallner.net wrote:
> Well, another semester rears its ugly head, with amongst other horrors a
> simulation / modelling assignment in store.
> 
> So here I am, wondering whether there's a Ruby library for discrete system model
> simulation, or whether I'm stuck with either
> 
> a) Using the C++ library some professor coded gods know when, which involves all
> the joy of not having a GC helping.
> 
> Or, more likely:
> 
> b) Translating the C++ source of the original library into Ruby.
> 
> Does anyone know about a lib I could use, or would the eventual product of my
> porting be of any interest to the general populace? Since the original C++
> library is distributed rather benevolently, there shouldn't be problems getting
> the permission to release the port.
> 
> 
>