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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by hzhou321 on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:12AM (#15480984)
> Speed is not a huge issue if you're happy to leave your simulation running overnight anyway, or if you have the option to just throw more and more cores at the problem

What about those cases that it's the matter between throwing at 1000 core cluster and wether we can have results before next conference in a couple months. That is what really defines the scientific programming -- it's about feasible and infeasible. For other jobs, isn't it just matter of taste?

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by lostboys67 on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:00AM (#15481794)
Depends not all scientific programming is at universities

when I worked for BHR group (a Hydro dynamics research organisation) some times we had emergency projects that had < 24 hour turn around. I recall one where a clinet had had a serious issue at a plant and we ran the simulation and produced a report in a single day

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