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Comment Re:academic tenure is an elitist system (Score 3, Insightful) 123

The REAL peers are the folks doing work in the profession day in and day out.

As an astrophysicist in a research University, I'd like to know where these REAL peers are. I thought I was the expert, but now you tell me there's someone working hard at an astrophysics day job — so hard, in fact, they're too busy to review the papers I write while quaffing champagne by the bucket-load in the penthouse suite of my ivory tower.

I'm all ears.

Comment Re:Not entirely open source software (Score 1) 126

OpenCL only partly works on NVIDIA. Despite NVIDIA waving around a beta of OpenCL 1.1 a few years back, their released OpenCL is stuck at 1.0. For me, this is a real pain in the butt, as I'm not able to use multiple GPUs concurrently with 1.0.

FWIW, I think NVIDIA provided their 1.0 OpenCL release grudgingly, and since it is in direct competition with CUDA, they've put very little effort into further developing it. Having dropped big bucks on their hardware, this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I won't be buying from them again.

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