On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 14:01 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 01:46:03PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > Well, in 90% of all such cases, "their coding" goes into
implementing
> > > complex algorithms, while their programs complexity is not much
> > > different from "hello world".
> >
> > This sounds quite arrogant.
>
> Feel free to think what you want - These number cruncher guys apps
> condense down to a
>
> READ STDIN
> CALL ALGORITHM
> PRINT STDOUT
>
> Their typical usage:
>
> ./myapp < inputdata >output
> ... wait <couple of days> ...
> lpr output
Hm, you have never seen any mpp code.
No I haven't, but I have seen many
matlab, lapack, octave and reduce
users.
I/O is the most complex part of large scale numerics.
May be in
your case, but not in the cases I am familiar with
(Optimization theory)
Ralf