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Subject: Re: Let's talk about fraud.

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 09:37:51 05/03/04

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On May 03, 2004 at 12:29:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On May 03, 2004 at 12:12:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>The hardware was _identical_ except for CPU speed.
>
>I'm talking about Vincent's 512 cpu thing versus the Cray
>the DTS paper was run on.
>
>>Totally up to you.  The main data was not "calculated in a rather funny and
>>backward manner". (the speedup data).
>
>There is nothing left substantiating the single very most important thing
>in the entire paper (the speedups). As it is now, the speedups were set
>in stone and all the data that were supposed to support them or allow them
>to be calculated is based on them, instead of the reverse.
>
>For all we know, you determined what looked like reasonable speeups
>in advance and invented the 'supporting data' for them. Actually, that
>*exactly* how the paper looks without all your storytelling around it.

If you had anything to do with science you would know how insulting such a mean
phrase looks like. You are hopping from significant null-move to invented data -
what do you think is the motif for such misbehavior?



>
>And you are surprised people are sceptical about it?
>
>I'm sorry, but as far as scientific results go it is garbage. The
>explanation of the principles behind DTS is interesting, though :)
>
>>The actual speedup calculations are around.
>
>Would be interesting to see what is left of that.
>
>--
>GCP



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