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Most scientific runs are scaled where you run multiple replicates. And not all scientific runs are high-performance in the HPC sense. Even if your code is HPC
by dnautics 6y ago
Most scientific runs are scaled where you run multiple replicates. And not all scientific runs are high-performance in the HPC sense. Even if your code is HPC in the HPC sense, and requires CUDA, and 40,000 cores, you should consider creating a release flag where an end user can do at least single "slow" run on a CPU on a reduced dataset, in single threaded mode, to sanity check the results and at least verify that the computational and algorithmic pipeline is sound at the most basic level.
I used to be a scientist. I get it, getting scientists to do this is like pulling teeth, but it's the least you could do to give other people confidence in your results.
- throwaway287391 6y ago> consider creating a release flag where an end user can do at least single "slow" run on a CPU on a reduced dataset, in single threaded mode, to sanity check the results and at least verify that the computational and algorithmic pipeline is sound at the most basic level. Ok, that's a reasonable ask :) But yeah as you implied, good luck getting the average scientist, who in the best case begrudgingly uses version control, to care enough to do this.