By: Robert Myers (rbmyersusa.delete@this.gmail.com), October 15, 2012 9:04 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
forestlaughing (forestlaughing.delete@this.yahoo.com) on October 15, 2012 8:02 am wrote:
> Robert Myers (rbmyersusa.delete@this.gmail.com) on October 10, 2012 10:11 am
> wrote:
> > The hidden figure of merit
> > apparently driving all HPC
> decisions is Linpack flops/$. There is really little
> > point in discussing
> anything else. I've given up. The field is owned by bean
> > counters and
> self-promoters.
>
> And you wouldn't know anything about self promotion, would
> you Robert? ;)
>
Well, for one thing, I do post under my own name, although Robert Myers is a very common name, even within the relatively constrained world of people who could conceivably be interested in the things I mostly post about.
If people recognize my name at all, it's because I have a few hobby horses that I have mostly stuck to. Given that I usually pick topics on which there is a tidal wave of mindless repetition opposed to what I am usually saying, it's perhaps a shame that I don't have even more talent for self-promotion, if that's what you want to call it. If you think I'm in the same league with IBM, LLNL, ORNL, and the University of Tennessee, I'm flattered. They have entire teams at each location. There is just one of me.
Robert.
> Robert Myers (rbmyersusa.delete@this.gmail.com) on October 10, 2012 10:11 am
> wrote:
> > The hidden figure of merit
> > apparently driving all HPC
> decisions is Linpack flops/$. There is really little
> > point in discussing
> anything else. I've given up. The field is owned by bean
> > counters and
> self-promoters.
>
> And you wouldn't know anything about self promotion, would
> you Robert? ;)
>
Well, for one thing, I do post under my own name, although Robert Myers is a very common name, even within the relatively constrained world of people who could conceivably be interested in the things I mostly post about.
If people recognize my name at all, it's because I have a few hobby horses that I have mostly stuck to. Given that I usually pick topics on which there is a tidal wave of mindless repetition opposed to what I am usually saying, it's perhaps a shame that I don't have even more talent for self-promotion, if that's what you want to call it. If you think I'm in the same league with IBM, LLNL, ORNL, and the University of Tennessee, I'm flattered. They have entire teams at each location. There is just one of me.
Robert.
