Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

2018-12-03 Thread John Hearns via Beowulf
Jim, wow! Talking about operating systems, and requirements for real time responses etc etc. my own history of OSes is pretty wide too. For work at CERN VM/CMS and MVS for processing of tape jobs, then VAX VMS to run on the clusters my experiment had. VMS clustered pretty easily, but there is a lim

Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

2018-12-03 Thread Lux, Jim (337K) via Beowulf
Jim Lux (818)354-2075 (office) (818)395-2714 (cell) -Original Message- From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Robert G. Brown Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 9:35 AM To: Paul Edmon Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome On Thu, 29 No

Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

2018-12-03 Thread Lux, Jim (337K) via Beowulf
My daughter took the CS101 class at her liberal arts college and it was Java. Maybe that’s because it’s an employable skill – An enormous amount of day to day business software development is in Java. As an Art History major, it’s not like she needs multidimensional arrays. Good, bombproof str

Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

2018-12-03 Thread Michael Di Domenico
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 1:13 PM John Hanks wrote: > > From the perspective of the software being containerized, I'm even more > skeptical. In my world (bioinformatics) I install a lot of crappy software. > We're talking stuff resulting from "I read the first three days of 'learn > python in 21 d

Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

2018-12-03 Thread John Hanks
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 9:44 PM John Hearns via Beowulf wrote: > John, your reply makes so many points which could start a whole series of > debates. > I would not deny partaking of the occasional round of trolling. > > Best use of our time now may well be to 'rm -rf SLURM' and figure out > h

Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

2018-12-03 Thread Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf
One misunderstanding people have about Fortran is that they always want to compare it to C. C is more of a 'general purpose' language that was  originally designed for low-level programming tasks, like programming operating systems without using assembly. On the other hand, Fortran is a domain-

Re: [Beowulf] No HTTPS for the mailman interface

2018-12-03 Thread Chris Samuel
On 2/12/18 10:43 pm, jaquil...@eagleeyet.net wrote: I know Chris is away, but dont you guys feel like there should be an SSL certificate on the mailman interface as right now it is sending all credentials over http. Don't worry, I've been wanting to do this for ages. From memory (no access at