Originally Posted by
darsunt
I've discussed this issue with the professor, and have been told the main graduate student in discussion is quite competent in writing code. So apparently he can write multithreaded code, but doesn't want to in this situation. (They write their own code, they don't have THAT much money). I've heard them complain a great deal about the difficulties they are have been running into over the years working with parallel systems at supercomputer centers (even with people helping them). Maybe they are facing some of the difficulties you guys are pointing out.