[Gllug] Best option for a lot of compute power

[Doug Winter]

On Mon 07 Jun Tethys wrote:
> 
> Richard Jones writes:
> 
> >Seriously though, have you looked at using a declarative language to
> >search through the space?  Prolog being the obvious choice.
> 
> Yep, that was my first thought, too. Languages like Prolog are great
> at calculating best fit scenarios[1]. I'm also completely astounded that
> anyone could seriously believe that calculating a school time table would
> require significant amounts of compute power.

Sounds NP-Complete to me, so presumably could involve an exhaustive
search, which could take a very very long time otherwise?  Especially in
this day and age when people are encouraged to select the subjects the
want (instead of everyone doing maths, physics & chemistry like when i
was a lad :).

On the computing power front, I am very pleased with the dual-opterons
i've bought.  They seem faster than the dual-Xeons, for the money.  I
have no scientific basis for that though.

doug.

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