Greg Wilson's interview is fun:

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3682.html

Regards,

On May 28, 6:58 pm, Bil Kleb nasa.gov> wrote:

Interesting talk. Not just about HPC but about scientific computing in
general. Points I liked:

1. Don't expect good scientists to be as good at programming or
computing. Helps to explain many nasty Fortran programs I've seen!

2. Productivity often beats performance. Long long ago, I had two
versions of a simulation program. One in Fortran on a Univac, one in
Basic on an Apple II+. Guess which made ME more productive?

2a. Excel was claimed to be used most often for number crunching
followed by things like Matlab and Mathematica. I found that an
engineer's web site which discueesd numerical techniques noted that he
had only used Matlab in school but NEVER Fortran.