Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:12 AM, Richard Mills <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>> >    These results seem reasonable to me.
>>> >
>>> >    What makes you think that KNL should be doing better than it does in
>>> comparison to Haswell?
>>> >
>>> >    The entire reason for the existence of KNL is that it is a way for
>>> >    Intel to be able to "compete" with Nvidia GPUs for numerics and
>>> >    data processing, for example in the financial industry. By
>>> >    "compete" I mean convince gullible purchasing agents for large
>>> >    companies to purchase Intel KNL systems instead of Nvidia GPU
>>> >    systems. There is nothing in the hardware specifications of KNL
>>> >    that would indicate that it should work better on this type of
>>> >    problem than Haswell, in fact the specifications indicate that the
>>> >    Haskell should perform better
>>>
>>> Boom!  Time to rewrite PETSc in Haskell!
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, forget this debate about using C++!
>>
>
> I think what Jed means is Time to write a Haskell program to Write PETSc.

Free your points and your mind will follow.

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