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by amadio 3y ago
Just to complement what I said above, here's a link to a presentation I made a couple of years ago about performance optimizations in simulation: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1052654/contributions/4521602
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by amadio 3y ago
This is not true. Maybe a PhD student doesn't care much (or doesn't know), but we care deeply about software performance at CERN. I've worked myself on optimizations in detector simulation and data analysis software (Geant4 a
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by amadio 3y ago
The client is available on Windows via a samba gateway. There's also a sync client for CERNBox for Windows, and even Android and iOS ( https://cernbox.web.cern.ch/cernbox/downloads/ ). The server is not availab
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by amadio 3y ago
> XetHub has the world’s first natively cross-platform, user-mode filesystem implementation, allowing you to mount arbitrarily large datasets on your machine. Not really world's first. CERN has developed EOS ( https://eos-
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by amadio 3y ago
By searching for "columnar data" in Google Scholar or even just plain Google, for example. Thorough literature review is a must for any researcher.
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by amadio 3y ago
Sad that the author seems to be unaware of similar work, but in high energy physics: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2438/1/... (also in arXiv here: https://arxiv.org
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Gentoo, Funtoo, and Beyond: Lessons from Open Source [video](youtube.com)
2 points by amadio 3y ago|0 comments
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by amadio 3y ago
If you enjoyed reading this, you may also enjoy watching the following video: https://youtu.be/riWkq5YLUts?si=Q0rW9F1_iKpswGDI
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by amadio 3y ago
Taylor expansion is usually not so good for this, you'll fare better with either Legendre or Chebyshev polynomials. Robin Green has some excellent material on the subject, which I am linking below. Faster Math Functions: https:/&
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by amadio 6y ago
I highly recommend this related article: "How the Sun Shines", by John Bahcall https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009259
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by amadio 8y ago
I prefer "The UNIX Koans of Master Foo" http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/
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by amadio 8y ago
You can try Gentoo prefix to install stuff into your $HOME: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix
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by amadio 8y ago
> My understanding is that Container Linux as is will be supported for years, but we will also be creating a new distro, RH CoreOS, that replaces the Gentoo build system with Fedora tooling. As a Gentoo dev and long time user, I've
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What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic(docs.oracle.com)
3 points by amadio 9y ago|0 comments
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by amadio 10y ago
The problem I have is that I like consuming information so much more than producing it that I never have the willpower to stop reading, watching videos, etc, and start producing something. I do feel that I would have a fair amount to share
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Richard Feynman on how we first found the speed of light(youtu.be)
2 points by amadio 10y ago|0 comments
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by amadio 10y ago
There's a GitHub mirror of it here: https://github.com/root-mirror/root