[petsc-dev] Subcomms

[Jed Brown]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 13:52, Mark F. Adams <mark.adams at columbia.edu>wrote:

> But I still think its a hard problem.  There are many constraints on a
> language and the inertia for science applications is immense.  The risk of
> failure is more than most application scientist can tolerate.  (eg, I
> recently heard of a code that decided to use python, which does not sound
> risky to me, but it takes 2 hours for python to load on 64K cores.  There
> are many failure modes in this business)


I agree that it is hard. FWIW, Aron Ahmadia and I worked out the key to
fixing the dynamic loading issue. We're working out how to deploy it now.
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