On Thursday, 20 February 2014 at 10:10:13 UTC, Nick B wrote:
The abstract is here: http://openparallel.com/multicore-world-2014/speakers/john-gustafson/
"The pursuit of exascale floating point is ridiculous, since we do not need to be making 10^18 sloppy rounding errors per second; we need instead to get provable, valid results for the first time, by turning the speed of parallel computers into higher quality answers instead of more junk per second"
Ok, I think I know a bunch of people who could question the contents of that sentence. Or, at the very least, question this guy's way of presenting sensational news.
