Writing the Fastest Code - New York Times

The only reason to blog this stoy is because the guy's name is Goto as in "'Go to' concidered harmful". I think it is quite funny.

Writing the Fastest Code, by Hand, for Fun: A Human Computer Keeps Speeding Up Chips - New York Times: "SEATTLE - There was a time long ago when the word 'computer' was a job description referring to the humans who performed the tedious mathematical calculations for huge military and engineering projects.
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Peter Yates for The New York Times

Kazushige Goto's software runs many of the fastest supercomputers.

It is in the same sense that Kazushige Goto's business card says simply 'high performance computing.'

Mr. Goto, who is 37, might even be called the John Henry of the information age."

posted by Dan Flies @ 11/28/2005 03:51:00 PM