[ale] HPC replies

[Russell L. Carter]

Greetings!

I am temporaily, regretably, locate4d in Douglasville
GA.  Yet I am wondering about the discussion here about
uh, erm, "HPC computing".

All the comments so far are true; it's a mess, always
has been.

But there is a reason for HPC computing: various algorithms
need memory locality to work efficiently.  People here surely
know what I mean: your nonlinear PDE solver (a galaxy here)
likely needs locally efficient memory accesses to work
"well enough" to get your PhD and then a low paid (relatively
speaking) job if you get tenure through the publications.

This all means that unless you are already in the PhD/HPC
ecosystem, it's quite economically inefficient to try to
be employed there.

Russell L. Carter


On 12/9/24 8:32 PM, Dev Null via Ale wrote:
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