Comments on: Open science and workflows http://neilernst.net/2010/02/01/open-science-and-workflows/ Thoughts on people, machines and systems. Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Neil http://neilernst.net/2010/02/01/open-science-and-workflows/#comment-159 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:06:44 +0000 http://neilernst.net/?p=1039#comment-159 But then we get into the challenge of educating scientists about parallelization and optimization and discretization. Topics even experienced programmers don’t understand very well.

Science was easier when we just had slide rules and log tables.

]]> By: Steve Easterbrook http://neilernst.net/2010/02/01/open-science-and-workflows/#comment-151 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:46:22 +0000 http://neilernst.net/?p=1039#comment-151 I think one of the biggest challenges is to get design choices about parallelization and algorithm optimization up there in the “language of science” representation, so that these are no longer an afterthought.

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