From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:06:01 +0200 Message-ID: From: hugo rivera To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] MPI Topicbox-Message-UUID: faccbb6c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2010/3/31 EBo : > Other than that, you might want to download some of the models which use = MPI > and possibly play with them. =C2=A0Depending on the size of the codebase = this might > scare you off a bit, but I actually find playing with the GCM WRF and Reg= CM3 > rather enlightening once I got past the initial frustrations... =C2=A0On = second > thought I never got over my frustrations, but this brings me to a pet pev= e -- > if you are looking into modeling and are not a computer scientist by trai= ning, > PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE at LEAST sit in a course on algorithms and data > structures, and possibly another one in software engineering. =C2=A0For a= ll the > theoretical physicists, ecologists, biologists, sociologists, and economi= sts I > have worked with, I have yet to meet one which have had more than a pract= icum > in FORTRAN and/or C/C++. =C2=A0If you already have a CS background, you c= ome 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. --=20 Hugo