On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
which is that we should avoid making permanent optimizations, and
instead try to do runtime tests wherever possible. This is because
P2V, V2V and virtual machine migration makes it more likely that
CPU features such as SSE* can change unexpectedly.
This is going to be pretty important for scientific workloads where
atlas is going to be used. I've eavesdropped on several conversations
where people were talking about being able to run off-the-shelf
science code virtual appliance in order to reduce the environment
configuration workload for an individual researcher.
-jef