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 Fortran-66. Carbon-dated scientists can still
recall IBM FORTRAN-G and -H."
Actually, a number of our mathematicians use C for their codes, but
don't seem to be doing much more than theoretical codes. The guys
who're wwriting/rewriting practical codes (weather models, computational
chemistry, reservoir simulations in solid earth) seem to stick to
Fortran here.
gerry
Jeff Layton wrote:
I hate to tangent (hijack?) this subject, but I'm curious about your
class poll. Did the people who were interested in Matlab consider Octave?
Thanks!
Jeff
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*From:* Joe Landman <land...@scalableinformatics.com>
*To:* Jeff Layton <layto...@att.net>
*Cc:* Gerry Creager <gerry.crea...@tamu.edu>; Beowulf Mailing List
<beowulf@beowulf.org>
*Sent:* Saturday, December 27, 2008 11:11:20 AM
*Subject:* Re: [Beowulf] Hadoop
N.B. the recent MPI class we gave suggested that we need to re-tool it
to focus more upon Fortran than C. There was no interest in Java from
the class I polled. Some researchers want to use Matlab for their work,
but most university computing facilities are loathe to spend the money
to get site licenses for Matlab. Unfortunate, as Matlab is a very cool
tool (been playing with it first in 1988 ...) its just not fast. The
folks at Interactive Supercomputing might be able to help with this with
their compiler.
--
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