<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:52 AM, John Fettig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.fettig@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.fettig@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fld.3827/abstract" target="_blank">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fld.3827/abstract</a><br>
<br></div><div>They do shift the point where strong scalability breaks down, which is notable, but their claim that <span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">"employing PETSc in its elemental form for high performance computing (HPC) applications would yield very poor scalability"<span> seems exaggerated to put it politely.<br>


<br>Is there anything we can take away from this paper?<br></span></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think I would have to get out my novelty microscope.</div><div><br></div><div>  Matt</div><div> </div>
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<div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px"><span>Regards,<br>


John<br><br></span></span></div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px"></span></div>


</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener
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