Le Jeu 31 mai 2007 10:10, Axel Thimm a écrit :
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:51:31AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Well either they have different purposes and you don't have the problem of deploying the same fortran modules on them,
Why not? The scientists develop on their desktop PC, test whether the code actually gives numbers that make sense for their model, and once the bits and bolts are in places run the large jobs on the real rack-mounted X-less number crunchers.
At that point they can and should take the time to rebuild it for the large number cruncher. Just dump the developper/scientist local builds on the expensive production systems is a very bad idea (and that's not a problem limited to numeric stuff)