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markhahn on April 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it

"horrid for interactive" is ironic, since interactive and HPC are pretty much disjoint. (well, viz...) From an HPC perspective, Fortran IO should be performed by HDF5...

_ofdw on April 8, 2015 | [–]

I think you're reinforcing my point.

Fortran might be used more widely, like C++ is, if it wasn't so awful for doing things other than shitting out numbers at insane speeds.

RhysU on April 8, 2015 | [–]

+1

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