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> Dongarra led the field in persuading hardware vendors to optimize these methods, and software developers to target his open-source libraries in their work I’
by nudpiedo 5y ago
> Dongarra led the field in persuading hardware vendors to optimize these methods, and software developers to target his open-source libraries in their work
I’ve got the gut feeling that this work might be 90% harder and longer than the whole math.
Also wondering how much work was indeed made within a team rather than particular contributions.
- ncmncm 5y agoCleverly, persuading did not need to involve talking to them, so much as getting them engaged in public competition for performance numbers.
- kragen 5y ago"The whole math" in the libraries in question is several centuries of work by history's greatest minds, such as Newton and Gauss, including long decades of blind alleys like quaternions, so it depends on what you mean by "harder and longer". Surely Gauss wouldn't've swung much weight in the IBM boardroom, but Sam Palmisano couldn't've made much progress on solving large systems of linear equations either.