OUR users are willing to pony up the funds to buy Matlab. We're already
running Octave but they claimed they didn't know how to use it. Even
after we showed them Matlab scripts that just ran on Octave.
As for Fortran vs C, real scientists program in Fortran. Real Old
Scientists program in
In message from Gerry Creager gerry.crea...@tamu.edu (Mon, 29 Dec
2008 09:01:21 -0600):
As for Fortran vs C, real scientists program in Fortran. Real Old
Scientists program in Fortran-66. Carbon-dated scientists can still
recall IBM FORTRAN-G and -H.
:-) I didn't check, but may be I just
On 12/29/08 7:01 AM, Gerry Creager gerry.crea...@tamu.edu wrote:
OUR users are willing to pony up the funds to buy Matlab. We're already
running Octave but they claimed they didn't know how to use it. Even
after we showed them Matlab scripts that just ran on Octave.
I use both on
:-) I didn't check, but may be I just have Fortran-G and H on my PC - as a
part of free Turnkey MVS distribution working w/(free) Hercules emulator for
IBM mainframes.
Ah... Job Control Language. Deep, deep joy.
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(This thread should be renamed Matlab and Octave.)
Matlab is the lingua franca for computing among students and young
scientists,
at least in Earth Sciences (solid earth, atmosphere/oceans/climate,
geochemistry, etc), as I observe it here.
A number of our students come from
Greg Lindahl wrote:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:18:32PM -0500, Gus Correa wrote:
(This thread should be renamed Matlab and Octave.)
Indeed, it only takes a few seconds to change a subject...
I'm surprised that Columbia doesn't still have a Fortran or
computing-for-scientists class;
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 05:16:04PM -0600, Gerry Creager wrote:
We've a user who has requested its installation on one of our clusters,
a high-throughput system.
You didn't say anything about what they wanted to do. Hadoop is
designed to store a lot of data, and then enable what we HPC people
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:38:15PM -0500, Gus Correa wrote:
I don't have any statistics or data, but I guess this is the picture
across the country.
Most people need 2 data points before they generalize to the entire
country. Many useless threads on this mailing list come from debating
Greg Lindahl wrote:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:38:15PM -0500, Gus Correa wrote:
I don't have any statistics or data, but I guess this is the picture
across the country.
Most people need 2 data points before they generalize to the entire
country. Many useless threads on this mailing
On 1
My daughter's recent freshman Intro to Computers class
at another high-ranked college consisted of
C programming (KR was the textbook) with OpenGL examples.
I would guess fashionable/pedantic approaches push young people
with no previous exposure to Unix and programming
towards the
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 09:03:38PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
- John Hearns hear...@googlemail.com wrote:
SGI Altix have 'bootcpusets' which means you can slice
off one or two processors to take care of OS housekeeping
tasks,
Now that cpusets have been in the mainline kernel for
- Nifty Tom Mitchell niftyo...@niftyegg.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 09:03:38PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
I contemplated doing this on our Barcelona cluster, but
sacrificing 1 core in 8 was a bit too much of a high price
to pay. But people with higher core counts per node
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