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From: hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MPI
Date: Thu,  1 Apr 2010 10:06:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p2l138575261004010106g2b71fkcacb88d87c95e0e1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <twig.1270053837.7280@swcp.com>

2010/3/31 EBo <ebo@sandien.com>:
> Other than that, you might want to download some of the models which use MPI
> and possibly play with them.  Depending on the size of the codebase this might
> scare you off a bit, but I actually find playing with the GCM WRF and RegCM3
> rather enlightening once I got past the initial frustrations...  On second
> thought I never got over my frustrations, but this brings me to a pet peve --
> if you are looking into modeling and are not a computer scientist by training,
> PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE at LEAST sit in a course on algorithms and data
> structures, and possibly another one in software engineering.  For all the
> theoretical physicists, ecologists, biologists, sociologists, and economists I
> have worked with, I have yet to meet one which have had more than a practicum
> in FORTRAN and/or C/C++.  If you already have a CS background, you come to
> understand why some of the code still makes me twitch...

I must admit that, in general, physicist, astrophysicists and
astronomers are very bad programmers. I've worked with all those
breeds and we really suck. Maybe the fact that I've read, and solved
almost all the exercises from "the practice of programming"
 and K&R's "the c programming language" will make you feel better.
Currently I'm going through Aho et al. "the awk programming language",
and then I'm planning to move to "The Unix Programming Environment".
Coming back to the subject, I'll start with your recommendations and
Andrew's. Probably this is just a newbie talking, but it seemed to me
a kind of problem easily solved with file servers and 9p; but again,
this was only my first impression.
Thanks to all for the feedback.

-- 
Hugo



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-01  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 14:57 hugo rivera
2010-03-31 15:49 ` ron minnich
2010-03-31 16:32 ` Andrew Smart
2010-03-31 16:43 ` EBo
2010-03-31 18:37   ` hiro
2010-03-31 18:44     ` David Leimbach
2010-03-31 18:56       ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-03-31 19:14       ` EBo
2010-03-31 22:51         ` hiro
2010-03-31 23:02           ` ron minnich
2010-04-01 14:39             ` David Leimbach
2010-04-01 18:49               ` EBo
2010-04-01 22:04                 ` Jorden M
2010-04-01 15:49             ` Jeff Sickel
2010-04-01 16:01               ` Corey Thomasson
2010-04-01 16:19                 ` maht
2010-04-01 16:43                   ` Corey Thomasson
2010-04-01  8:06   ` hugo rivera [this message]
2010-04-01  8:21     ` EBo

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