[Fot] State of F1

[Bill Babcock]

I think we must have been hanging out in the same places. George  
Morrow (Morrow Computers, one of the early CP/M brands) said way back  
in the 70's "Anyone who believes what programmers say deserves what  
happens to them".
On Oct 23, 2008, at 7:19 AM, Larry Young wrote:

> PC's are already about as fast serially as a supercomputer, so the  
> only answer is massively parallel.  This makes programming a  
> nightmare except for problems that are huge and easily split into  
> many separate unrelated tasks.  CFD is not one of them. I remember  
> back in the early 90s I would hear every year "This is the Year for  
> Parallel Computing".  I don't think is will ever happen.
>
> Bill Babcock wrote:
>> Super computers are either extremely fast in a serial
>> sense (limited) or massively parallel. If they are massively parallel
>> than everything that runs on them needs to be optimized up the wazoo,
>> and it's terrifically difficult to get stuff to work well.
>>

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