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Can I ask you what's standing in critical path to obtaining scientifically efficient compute? Asking as a private user of commercially non trivial compute, but
by retcore 4y ago
Can I ask you what's standing in critical path to obtaining scientifically efficient compute?
Asking as a private user of commercially non trivial compute, but very short on the research depth required to translate optimal thinking into efficiency.
Edit: we're similarly bound by eg PDE solutions. We've found the greatest improvements in rolling our own storage. Not purely capex improvements but orders in ingest.
- b112 4y agoProbably, everyone is coding software using electron. (While I am picking on electron, the truth is, if compute power exists, it seems DEVs never need to reign in code, or worry about efficiency. Where I work, we purposefully set DEVs loose in VMs with minimal RAM, minimal CPU. If your app can't work with small RAM, and small CPU, how on Earth will it scale to 100s of requests per second? Compute costs.)
- alpineidyll3 4y agoIf your pde has spatial locality, parallelization works. I suspect you might be talking about multidimensional diffusions such as occur in finance. These decompose locally in price space. If the pde is nonlocal there is very little that works in general. I wrote a paper on parallelization in the time dimension, but it works poorly.