From: Mark Abraham Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:42:42 +0000 (+0200) Subject: More quotes X-Git-Url: http://biod.pnpi.spb.ru/gitweb/?p=alexxy%2Fgromacs.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=e60fe9d2897fa123496a714c65f4ee4c6a860053 More quotes From speakers, their slides and participants at ATPESC2014 Change-Id: Iae2b9f823a8b86995875a02c783df70d42f4727d --- diff --git a/share/top/gurgle.dat b/share/top/gurgle.dat index dc99ad2914..c6d3fee693 100644 --- a/share/top/gurgle.dat +++ b/share/top/gurgle.dat @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -501 +510 If You Want Something Done You Have to Do It Yourself_(Highlander II) I Live the Life They Wish They Did_(Tricky) Jesus Built My Hotrod_(Ministry) @@ -500,3 +500,12 @@ Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never ach Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back._(Piet Hein) You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10^12 to 1._(Ernest Rutherford) X-rays will prove to be a hoax._(Lord Kelvin, while president of the Royal Society) +If you're doing I/O, you're doing it wrong!_(Cannada "Drew" Lewis) +The easiest way to scale well is to have bad single-core performance_(Blind Freddie) +Heard a talk introducing a new language called Swift, from a guy named Wozniak, and it had nothing to do with Apple!_(Adam Cadien) +When doing HPC, don't communica_(Jim Demmel) +Today we're not going to optimize our CUDA code, cause that's just a rabbit hole of misery!_(Tim Warburton) +Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it..._(Dan Ariely) +It seems likely that significant software contributions to existing scientific software projects are not likely to be rewarded through the traditional reputation economy of science. Together these factors provide a reason to expect the over-production of independent scientific software packages, and the underproduction of collaborative projects in which later academics build on the work of earlier ones._(Howison & Herbsleb) +On average, it takes twenty years for the world's largest super computer to shrink down to the size of your laptop._(Pete Beckman) +When using an abacus, a human can achieve about 0.1 flops/watt. Super-computers achieve about 2 gigaflops/watt._(John Linford)