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Re:Fortran by 8organicbits on Monday August 28, 2023 @07:52AM (#37292644)
People are reasonably expected to learn k8s or React on the job, and those have a learning curve as well. Are MPI/OpenMPI much more difficult than those? I suppose that's a hard comparison to make. At first glance it doesn't look too crazy to me.

https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~youse/openmpi/#/7

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Re:Fortran by mafuy on Monday August 28, 2023 @08:11AM (#37292838)
MPI is trivial to learn. CS students here are expected to use it for typical scientific tasks within a few hours of lessons. Complex use cases take some time to understand backgrounds (e.g. multi partition configurations, profiling, infiniband, ...) and it's possible to become a specialist, but that's very rarely needed.

But MPI, in most use cases, comprises far less than React does, so it's not a fair comparison.

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