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- From: davsmith@nic.cerf.net (David Smith)
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- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
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- Date: 1 Sep 92 23:45:22 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.144045.11416@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Aug31.170849.11927@mprgate.mpr.ca> <1992Aug31.204426.1985@craycos.com>
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- In article <1992Aug31.204426.1985@craycos.com> sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi) writes:
- >>hard enough battle.
- >
- >Having recently encountered honors graduates in "Computer Science" who were
- >not entirely sure exactly what an assembler is makes me despair of finding
- >BSc-s who understand vector processing. Perhaps things are better in
- >Canada...
- >
-
- Grow your own. That's what we did at Celerity (which became FPS, now
- Cray Research Super Servers). I spent a couple of years as a student
- worker (Kiddie Korps) at Celerity and later hired on full time. By the
- time I got my degree I knew vectors, I knew caches, I knew networks, I
- knew I/O, etc. and I'd had a lot of exposure to software engineering
- techniques. Vectors, interleaved memory, HIPPI, etc. are things that
- are quite esoteric and you won't find many people period who understand
- them. Grow your own, it's not too hard, and the kids are cheap.
-
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- David L. Smith
- smithd@discos.com or davsmith@nic.cerf.net
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