Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:53:54 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who writes the esoteric scientific Unix apps? Message-ID: <20011214095354.A18441@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20011214170714.A13736@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:07:14PM %2B0000 References: <20011214170714.A13736@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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--huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:07:14PM +0000, j mckitrick wrote: >=20 > We hear so often that high-end Unix worstations are used for advanced > scientific applications. The biggest of the big iron usually goes to > weather/finance forecasting and especially nuclear research. >=20 > Who writes these apps? Specialized software companies or in-house > developers? Most high-end scienTific apps are written by scientists. Some very large, later generation applications have software engineers and computer scientists involved, but in general it's actual scientists who write the majority of the code. > Are they batch-based, command line apps or GUI driven? Most of the computation can be started from a command line, but the mode of operation varies from applications which take a single set of inputs and run for days on hundreds of nodes to applications where a script feeds multiple runs into a batch queueing system. Generally, there is a visualzation component, but how it works varies significantly. Some systems visualize after computation, others allow visualization during, and yet other have interactive visualzations which steer the computation. There's no one true way. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8GjyxXY6L6fI4GtQRAqrPAKCrJu3JCkRgVg0D4F2QT0KeV3MoyQCg5JT2 kcADqEirKvVFCktHxtW5IfY= =Vfba -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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