3 Apr
2013
3 Apr
'13
11:29 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:15 PM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
Which, I guess, is not to say that they weren't difficult to
program, but that supercomputer programmers probably should have
felt right at home
The complaint I heard was the tools were primitive relative to the other
architectures out there. You had a somewhat spartan gcc toolchain and BLAS.
Compare that with the dozens of highly optimized libraries and toolchains
for even generic x86, much less specific chips if you're talking about
Intel, especially when you're dealing with threading.