what is the best technolgy for doing numerical calculation on serverside?

Question

if you want doing some part of the calculation of your scientific or engineering web application(ie finite element app) which technologies or languages or frameworks is your suggestion for backend and optimising the usage of machine resources...

Answer 1

I would use python with its powerfull math/scientific libraries, numpy and scipy. Then I would serve it with a webframework like web2py or cherrypy.