On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > > Richard has access to the hardware > > Is this true? Or he will have hardware "soon"? >
Yes, I finally have access to hardware. It's a bit hard to get time on, and it's flaky because it is from the initial tape-in, but it's here and I've run on it. That's what prompted me to bring this thread up again. > > > and is not going to "lie to us" that "oh it helps so much" because > > he knows that you will test it yourself and see that he is lying. > > I'm not at all worried about him lying, but I'm concerned about being > able to sample across a sufficiently broad range of apps/configurations. > Maybe he can run some PETSc examples and PFLOTRAN, which is a good > start, but may not be running in the appropriately memory-constrained > circumstances of a package with particles like pTatin, for example. We > care not just about the highs but also about the confusing corners that > users will undoubtedly encounter. > Good point, Jed. And I anticipate a lot of confusing corners. --Richard
