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 have Fortran-G and H on my PC -
as a part of free Turnkey MVS distribution working w/(free) Hercules
emulator for IBM mainframes.
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.
Our group works in area of computational chemistry, and of course we
write the programs on Fortran (95) :-) But I'm afraid that we'll start
here the new cycle of "religious language war" :-)
Mikhail Kuzminsky
Computer Assistance to Chemical Research Center
Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
Moscow
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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