By: John Leidel

I’ve also had the pleasure of dealing with angry users from time to time. Unfortunately, I would have to disagree with the users that this is our [the HPC community] fault. Indeed, the latest round of HPC platforms don’t bode well for the C++ 101-level programmer. Indeed, the hardware and software have become much more complex. Thus is the natural progression of improving performance. The latest round of hybrid architectures are going to require some very clever application analysts in order to utilize them efficiently. Even then, “its application specific…”