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		spacecowboy_lon on Dec 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming Modern Systems Like It Was 1984 So why do HPC system developers still use the 1k /seat intel Fortran compiler then? Becase IPC/Kw is an much more important metric thesae days

lmm on Dec 3, 2014 [–]

The HPC folks work in the niches where people will pay extra for better performance; those niches do exist. But they are small niches.

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