Julia packaging https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Pkg/index.html
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 01:42, Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 07:51:06 -0500, you wrote: > > >On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:50 PM Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:26:42 +0100, you wrote: > >> If on premise HPC doesn't change to reflect the way the software is > >> developed today then the users will in the future prefer cloud HPC. > >> > >> I guess it is a brave new world for on premise HPC as far as that the > >> users now, and likely more in the future, will have alternatives thus > >> forcing the on premise HPC to "compete" in order to survive. > > > >this seems a bit too stringent of a statement for me. i don't dismiss > >or disagree with your premise, but i don't entirely agree that HPC > >"must" change in order to compete. We've all heard this kind of stuff > >in the past if x doesn't change y will take over the world! > > HPC, like most things, exists to get something done. > > If HPC doesn't change to reflect the changes in society and the way > the software is developed (*) then the users will look for more modern > ways to replace traditional HPC. As noted the software is no longer > developed on workstations that are connected to the lab/company > network but rather on laptops that stay with the user wherever they > go. > > This in turn is at least in part what has driven to the rise of > distributed version control, git in particular. > > If HPC doesn't make it easy for these users to transfer their workflow > to the cluster, and the cloud providers do, then the users will move > to using the cloud even if it costs them 10%, 20% more because at the > end of the day it is about getting the job done and not about spending > time to work to antiquated methods of putting jobs in a cluster. > > And of course if the users would rather spend their department budgets > with Amazon, Azure, Google, or others then the next upgrade cycle > their won't be any money for the in house cluster... > > > * - note the HPC isn't unique in this regard. The Linux distributions > are facing their own version of this, where much of the software is no > longer packagable in the traditional sense as it instead relies on > language specific packaging systems and languages that don't lend > themselves to the older rpm/deb style system. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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