Comments on: Rattner talks Exascale at ISC in Dresden

By: John West

John West — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:31:20 +0000

Science Writer – actually, you are 100% right. That piece was written by one of our casual contributors. We were (and are) very glad to have his thoughts on the meeting since we couldn’t attend, but we clearly should have done our readers the courtesy of a more careful review. This is a mistake that I think we are less likely to make today (this post is over a year old and we have evolved), but I it will probably still happen from time to time. I appreciate you taking the time to point out our shortcoming; I’ve made corrections that I think improve the readability without doing a total rewrite (archival integrity problem).

Thanks again for leaving your comment.

By: Science writer

Science writer — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:39:04 +0000

You folks need some serious copyediting. Even a simple proofread would offer a great improvement. For example, what exactly does this mean? “…he discussed the applications options with either 12, 48 or 144 cores, and concluding the broader range of applications vale deriving from many-core architectures.”

First, if you parse the sentence out, you have written the following: He discussed the applications’ options with either 12, 48 or 144 cores. He concluding the broader range of applications vale deriving form many-core architecture.

The verb should be parallel to the noun: “he…concluded” I can’t image what is meant by “vale deriving form.”