I never cease to be impressed by Julia's speed. I just wrote a test program in Julia and Fortran 90 (it computes the gravitational force between some planets). To my surprise, the Julia version was 7% faster than Fortran.
So... apparently one can write N-body codes with Julia. Suppose I wrote a simulation in Julia. What would be the best way to deploy it to a distant computer cluster where I do not have root access? The cluster runs Linux. Can I get a single stand-alone Julia binary that I can just push to the cluster so I can run Julia programs there? The advantage of a stand-alone binary is that I could include it in a zip file and give it to my colleagues to try my program. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Cheers, Daniel. -- When an engineer says that something can't be done, it's a code phrase that means it's not fun to do.
