Making computers work

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> That's possibly the problem - the assumption that computers can't be 
> made to work properly. It's fundamentally wrong, and it holds back 
> development.
>
> Computers behave deterministically[1]. Software behaves 
> deterministically. The combination of these two things lets us produce 
> software that works 100% of the time. 

I agree with you on this, just an interesting side-note: I did Fluid 
dynamics simulations on Linux clusters for my thesis that were in theory 
100% deterministic (no random numbers involved). However, from a 
combination of load-balancing and rounding errors I would get slightly 
different results each time. When you then add the butterfly effect in 
fluid dynamics you can get wildly different morphologies (but the same 
global dynamics).

- Henrik