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30 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
DISAPPOINTED WITH SEQUENTIAL CODE,
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This review is from: Numerical Recipes Source Code CD-ROM 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing (CD-ROM)
My rating reflects dissatisfaction with the concept of v3.0, rather than with how it's been implemented. Given past experience, I'm sure the implementation is just fine.
I've been very happily using the parallel version of the v2.10 NR algorithms in Fortran 9x for the past year or more. My work needs the extra oomph of multiple processors, and the algorithms are all that they're supposed to be. You can imagine my astonishment to discover that v3.0 is sequential C++ code. The authors made a big deal about parallel Fortran being the future of scientific computing in the preface of their Second Edition. Now all it merits is a bowdlerization of Shakespeare in a footnote on p. xi. Indeed, "what a falling off was there!" NR/v3.0 cuts off at least a portion of its high-end users, and that ain't progress. Had I realized this was going to happen, I would never have upgraded. As it is, I'm stuck with the Fortran 90 legacy portion of the CD. This might not be so bad if this code were supported, but it's not. I strongly urge the authors to move to a parallel version of their new code and to support the Fortran code at least in the interim. The electronic text could provide a medium for so doing. My displeasure obviously extends to the text, the production of which is superb, by the way. |
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Numerical Recipes Source Code CD-ROM 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing by William H. Press (CD-ROM - September 10, 2007)
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