[Fed-Talk] FYI: Apple Scitech looking for input
[Fed-Talk] FYI: Apple Scitech looking for input
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] FYI: Apple Scitech looking for input
- From: Allan Marcus <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:22:19 -0700
[please forward to anyone you know who uses the Mac for scientific
computing]
Did you know that Apple has a Scitech mailing list?
"An open discussion of topics related to Apple's support for
scientific and technical computing. Mac OS X as a UNIX operating
system, the G5's Velocity Engine, and clustering are of particular
interest to scientists and researchers. Discussions of UNIX tools,
compilers, porting efforts, Velocity Engine optimization, compute
clusters, and feedback to Apple are appropriate topics."
To sign up, go to <http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/scitech>
Did you know you that Apple monitor's and participates in this
mailing list? I recently received the following from a friend:
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:38:27 -0800
From: Ian Ollmann <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Science at MacWorld
To: Apple Scitech Mailing List <email@hidden>
Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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So, you may be surprised how much response you get if you harass
your vendors. They may be ignoring you because no one is taking
the time to ask for the updates.
I am continually astounded at how little feedback our group gets from
science users. As providers of the math library and
Accelerate.framework, you'd think we'd get tons of requests for this
or that, but every time we enter planning phases for the next major
OS, we review bug reports for features requests and maybe we find one
or two, if that.
I suspect our particular problem that the scitech community is much
smaller than the userbase as a whole, and the part of the scitech
community that we'd likely get a feature request from is the software
developers. That group is probably <1% (unscientific estimate) of the
scitech users. How many of them have even thought about the operating
system as a place where they might find scientific algorithms? We
sometimes provide features because a single person asked for it.
When your sample size is two, once voice can be quite loud.
Ian Ollmann
Vector and Numerics Group
CoreOS Foundations
Apple Inc.
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