Comments on: HPC considered harmful…? [CORRECTED][UPDATED] http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: HPCer http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-63358 HPCer Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:54:31 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-63358 Why would you need a debugger for the Top500 benchmark? ;-) Why would you need a debugger for the Top500 benchmark? ;-)

]]> By: Brian http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62208 Brian Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:27:42 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62208 I thoroughly enjoyed reading Greg's paper, and will be sending the link to a number of people. I had to fight tooth and nail to get my place of work to purchase a debugger a while back, and now we're fighting over compiler licenses, too. There's a sense amongst people new to the field that high performance computing is merely throwing hardware at a problem, and hoping things work. The notion of setting aside a mere 2-3% of the hardware funds for software is considered heresy, despite the enormous returns on investment in the hardware one receives from doing so! .... And I haven't even started ranting yet on the code development process, validating results, training, optimization, etc. :-) Anyways, thanks to Greg for writing this, and to John for posting it, and to HPCwire / Tabor for the free registration for the year! I thoroughly enjoyed reading Greg’s paper, and will be sending the link to a number of people. I had to fight tooth and nail to get my place of work to purchase a debugger a while back, and now we’re fighting over compiler licenses, too. There’s a sense amongst people new to the field that high performance computing is merely throwing hardware at a problem, and hoping things work. The notion of setting aside a mere 2-3% of the hardware funds for software is considered heresy, despite the enormous returns on investment in the hardware one receives from doing so!

…. And I haven’t even started ranting yet on the code development process, validating results, training, optimization, etc. :-)

Anyways, thanks to Greg for writing this, and to John for posting it, and to HPCwire / Tabor for the free registration for the year!

]]> By: Greg Wilson http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62188 Greg Wilson Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:32:20 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62188 If the article does become truly free, I'd be interested in reading it as well (for obvious reasons :-) If the article does become truly free, I’d be interested in reading it as well (for obvious reasons :-)

]]> By: Free Horizons subscriptions to our readers | insideHPC http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62177 Free Horizons subscriptions to our readers | insideHPC Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:57:19 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62177 [...] HPC considered harmful…? [CORRECTED] [...] [...] HPC considered harmful…? [CORRECTED] [...]

]]> By: John West http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62141 John West Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:52:08 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62141 Mike - as we've talked about by email, I'm working with the Horizons guys to figure out if joining really isn't free, or if the site is having issues. Mike – as we’ve talked about by email, I’m working with the Horizons guys to figure out if joining really isn’t free, or if the site is having issues.

]]> By: Mike Heinz http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62118 Mike Heinz Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:20:50 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62118 Signing up might be free, but trying to read your article seems to be a pay-only proposition. Kind of a bait-and-switch, don't you think? Signing up might be free, but trying to read your article seems to be a pay-only proposition.

Kind of a bait-and-switch, don’t you think?

]]> By: Paul Adams http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62099 Paul Adams Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:48:06 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/05/hpc-considered-harmful/#comment-62099 One of my professors at MSU, Dr. Timothy Swafford, always said that the worst answer is the answer you get that looks correct. One of my professors at MSU, Dr. Timothy Swafford, always said that the worst answer is the answer you get that looks correct.

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