[Beowulf] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Re: Spark, Julia, OpenMPI etc. - all in one place

[Douglas Eadline]

>> I have a let it "mellow a bit" approach to shinny new software.
> Software as malt whisky... I like it.
>  Which reminds me to ask re LECBIG plans?


ahhhh, Cigars, Cognac and clusters. Maybe someday in the future.
For those that are curious (from 2007)

https://www.clustermonkey.net/images/stories/beobash/LECCIBG-SC07.jpeg


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Doug

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> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 15:28, Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org>
> wrote:
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>> > Unfortunately the presumption seems to be that the old is deficient
>> > because it is old, and "my generation” didn't invent it (which is
>> > clearly perverse; I see no rush to replace English, French, … which
>> are
>> > all older than any of our programming languages, and which adapt, as
>> do
>> > our programming languages).
>> >
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>> I think this has a lot to do with the Fortran situation. In these
>> "modern"
>> times, software seems to have gone from "releases" to a "sliding
>> constant release" cycle and anything not released in the past few
>> months is "old."
>>
>> How many people here will wait a 2-6 months before installing
>> a "new version" of some package in production to make sure there
>> are no major issues. And of course keep older version options
>> with software modules. Perhaps because I've been at this a while,
>> I have a let it "mellow a bit" approach to shinny new software.
>>
>> I find it odd that Fortran gets placed in the "old software box"
>> because it works while new languages with their constant feature
>> churn and versions break dependency trees all over the place,
>> and somehow that is good thing. Now get off my lawn.
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>> Doug
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>> Doug
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Doug