jeff_science

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   by jeff_science 9y ago

   Yeah, those deep-pocketed government lab and university researchers are clearly the dominant revenue source for MathWorks. Everybody in the corporate world is super nimble and moved on to Numpy as soon as they could.
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   by jeff_science 13y ago

   The rules of HN state: "Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads." I think you have unintentionally violated the last provision. Please don&#x27
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   by jeff_science 13y ago

   Indeed, we didn't chose Elemental over ScaLAPACK; we used Elemental to replace LAPACK because it was impossible to refactor our code to use ScaLAPACK without absolutely ruining it forever. The ScaLAPACK interface is horrible and shoul
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   by jeff_science 13y ago

   Given that a few dozen US-based students attend ACTS every year, I hardly see how it is a game-changer w.r.t. the widespread acceptance of Elemental. I think the internet is doing just fine so far.
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   by jeff_science 13y ago

   CPU programming on the other hand, especially with OpenMP, is hard to get into at first, but once you have the right formula you can apply it pretty easily to most common tasks. My guess is that you've spent a lot more time trying to u