Re: [Discuss] scientific computing, HPC and tests

2016-03-09 Thread Peter Steinbach
hi guys, I'd sign off of both Davide's and Trevor's arguments - thanks for the reconfirmation. And I do agree with Trevor, that teaching people TDD that have never bumped their head against the wall because of a bug they cannot find, is ambitious. I believe it's the same with version control

Re: [Discuss] scientific computing, HPC and tests

2016-03-09 Thread W. Trevor King
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 01:25:22PM +0100, Peter Steinbach wrote: > On 03/09/2016 01:15 PM, Ashwin Trikuta Srinath wrote: > > I'm in favour of teaching testing - even if it is in the style of > > the regression tests you mentioned. But I'm not so sure about unit > > tests, or even if application

Re: [Discuss] scientific computing, HPC and tests

2016-03-09 Thread Peter Steinbach
Dear Ashwin, On 03/09/2016 01:15 PM, Ashwin Trikuta Srinath wrote: Hi Peter - great post(s)! In case you haven't seen them already, lot of great arguments have been made here [1] about why teaching testing may/may not be a good idea in our workshops. Yes, I read this post a long time ago. And

Re: [Discuss] scientific computing, HPC and tests

2016-03-09 Thread Ashwin Trikuta Srinath
Hi Peter - great post(s)! In case you haven't seen them already, lot of great arguments have been made here [1] about why teaching testing may/may not be a good idea in our workshops. I'm in favour of teaching testing - even if it is in the style of the regression tests you mentioned. But I'm not

[Discuss] scientific computing, HPC and tests

2016-03-09 Thread Peter Steinbach
Hi to all, I just wanted to share some insights that I made during a GPU focused hackathon last week. For the full glory of details, see a series of blog posts on Eurohack 2016 in Dresden (Germany): https://gcoe-dresden.de/?page_id=4 The hackathon had 6 teams come into Dresden with their HPC