On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> speaking of higher levels of abstraction: > given some scientific code i've seen (before this, nothing to do with the > things > running on Blue Gene), i'd observe that fixing some of the algorithms used > (which > is compiler and platform independent activity) will often yield much bigger > results > than (say) compiling it with gcc, xlc, xlf, etc. you'd be amazed (or perhaps > not) > how naive some of the code can be. Excellent point. Some of the app code is terrible. I am hoping we'll prove that we can "go native" and do as well as or better than the existing apps. At the same time, having just gotten badly burned on Clustermatic because people wanted to run xemacs on compute nodes and got unhappy when we said no, I've gotten sensitized to the "wants" of users. How you respond to stupid demands can make or break your project. It's hard to take but we're a service industry. ron
