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      What was the author smoking when he wrote this?

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        I didn’t spend a lot of time looking but most of the authors are at Google, nVidia, or one of the US government national labs. All three groups are in a position to rewrite or refactor as much of their code as they wish.

        • National Labs (6), e.g. Argonne, Livermore, Oak Ridge, Sandia
          It wouldn’t surprise me if their simulation software is refactored or rewritten for each supercomputer.
        • Google (7)
          “Most software at Google gets rewritten every few years.” Software Engineering at Google
        • NVidia (2)
          GPU libraries and drivers are probably rewritten or refactored for each new generation of hardware.
        • Uber (1)
        • Unknown (1)
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          Probably splendid isolation from anyone else at Google.

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            Which aspects are umm pipe dreams to you?