November 20th 2008

How to promote High Performance Computing ?

I had this discussion with one of my Ph.D. advisors some months ago when we talked about correctly using the computers we had then (dual cores), and I had almost the same one in my new job here: applied maths (finite differences, signal processing, …) graduate students are not taught how to use current computers, so how could they develop an HPC program correctly?

I think it goes even further than that, and it will be a part of this post. What I see is that trainees and newly-hired people (to some extent myself included) lack a lot of basic Computer Science knowledge, and even IT knowledge.
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April 11th 2008

Book review: Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing

This is my first review. I read this book some time ago but I still want to write about it because the topic is very interesting.
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