Thursday, November 17, 2005
Computers on their knees
Well, I'm rewriting a program after the super computer I'm working on told me the following:
That's a good goal, shoot for running out of memory on the super computer. Oh well, time to brush learn Fortran for real this time I guess.
The post script: I rewrote the program to be slower but less memory intensive and it hasn't crashed after 20 minutes of number crunching so that's a good sign.
iceberg1 % more lls-perl.txt.118172.err
Out of memory!
iceberg1 %
That's a good goal, shoot for running out of memory on the super computer. Oh well, time to brush learn Fortran for real this time I guess.
The post script: I rewrote the program to be slower but less memory intensive and it hasn't crashed after 20 minutes of number crunching so that's a good sign.
