Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

2018-12-04 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 11:20 -0500, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote: > On 12/3/18 2:44 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote: > > 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 (bioinformati

Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

2018-12-04 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 10:12:10 -0800, you wrote: > And then I realized that I was seeing >software which was "easier to containerize" and that "easier to >containerize" really meant "written by people who can't figure out >'./configure; make; make install' and who build on a sand-like foundation >of

Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

2018-12-04 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 11:25:01 -0500, you wrote: > From my experience, CS professors like to teach in Java because it's a >"pure" object-oriented programming language, unlike C++ which is just C >with object-oriented extensions,and still allows you to use C syntax. Java took over in part because a

Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

2018-12-04 Thread Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf
From my experience, CS professors like to teach in Java because it's a "pure" object-oriented programming language, unlike C++ which is just C with object-oriented extensions,and still allows you to use C syntax. Prentice On 12/3/18 8:25 PM, Lux, Jim (337K) wrote: My daughter took the CS101 c

Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

2018-12-04 Thread Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf
On 12/3/18 2:44 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote: 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

Re: [Beowulf] Administrivia: list admin traveling for a while

2018-12-04 Thread Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf
Chris, Congratulations on the move! Good luck @  NERSC and in the US. Prentice On 12/1/18 5:58 PM, Chris Samuel wrote: Hi folks, This won't be news to those who stalk^Wfollow me on Twitter, but today is my last day in Australia, I fly this evening to the US where I'll be starting work at NE

Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

2018-12-04 Thread Lux, Jim (337K) via Beowulf
From: Beowulf on behalf of "beowulf@beowulf.org" Reply-To: John Hearns Date: Monday, December 3, 2018 at 10:41 PM To: "beowulf@beowulf.org" Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome The truth is that Unix was for longhairs and computer science types. Exactly – driven by the peculiar licens