RE: Mixing reproducible and non-reproducible code
On Dec 2 2012, Michel Hack wrote:
Vladik Kreinovich wrote:
Reproducibility is a typical problem in parallel computations,
maybe we can borrow some words from their standards?
Well, El Paso is not exactly near Houston, but there is:
From where I sit, it is :-)
Title: 4th Workshop on Determinism and Correctness in Parallel
Programming
Grrk. A glance at its introduction raises my hackles - it is clearly
a meeting for True Believers only, which will affect its terminology.
Despite what it says, determinism is dubiously a safety property, and
definitely NOT a correctness property.
When calculating pi, is a program that always gives the answer 3 more
correct than one that gives a measurement from a Normal(pi,1.0e-6)
distribution?
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.