On 07/02/2014 05:37 PM, James Cuff wrote:
Let this be a lesson to us all.
Repeat after me:
"Top 500 scores mean nothing!"
As a community we have to stop this madness! 100k / day. Sigh.
J.
There is signs of this madness ending, at least in the US. I read a few
studies about how computational scientists work, and they all came to
the same conclusion: Most computational scientists cannot use, or have a
need for large supercomputers. Most just need a decent departmental
cluster or institution-wide cluster. I can't find links the specific
papers I read, but I believe I found them on this page of Software
Carpenty site:
http://software-carpentry.org/bib/bib.html
The NSF has sent out RFPs (like NSF 13-528) that aren't for
LINPACK-killing supers, but for more 'accessible' systems. Things are
slowly changing, but just like Formula 1 and NASCAR, people are going to
follow the fastest. Last I checked, there weren't huge crowds at my
local autocross races. :(
Prentice
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