[petsc-dev] Seeking OLCF users complaining about poor build times

[Barry Smith]

> On Mar 2, 2015, at 9:36 AM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> 
> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>  We could have a script that runs configure; submits the result to
>>  queue; gets result from queue; runs the new configure
> 
> Just make it part of configure, but either way, it requires knowing how
> to submit jobs.  

   No the difference is that it is written by the person running on that particular site who knows that particular site and its quirks and thus writes a script that works there.  It is not something done by an outside group 


> If you don't guess right the first time, it costs as
> much human time as the manual alternative.