Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Titan (supercomputer)/archive2

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The article was not promoted by GrahamColm 00:42, 23 July 2013 (UTC) [1].[reply]

Titan (supercomputer)[edit]

Nominator(s): James086 ^Talk 16:16, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was swamped and could not address the issues raised in the previous FAC in time. I will be able to attend to any concerns now and I believe I have already addressed those raised in the previous FAC. I have tried to use American spelling throughout, so please pick up on any British words used as I speak British-English. James086 ^Talk 16:16, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of initial concerns:

"Titan is an upgrade of Jaguar, a previous supercomputer at Oak Ridge, to use graphics processing units (GPUs) in addition to conventional central processing units (CPUs)." "an upgrade... to use..." - there's something missing here.

I'm afraid I don't see what's missing. Could you please explain why the sentence doesn't work? James086 ^Talk 17:23, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The "to use" is hanging in mid-sentence; I'm guessing there's was supposed to be something like "the first to use..." there to link it to the previous bit, or alternatively that it should perhaps have read "which uses graphics processing..."? Hchc2009 (talk) 19:31, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've changed it and also requested a copyedit from the GOCE so once that is done I'll return for another stab at FAC. James086 ^Talk 20:55, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Titan is available for any purpose" - I'm no expert, but this seems unlikely. Could I request that Titan run programs? Or a hostile intelligence agency? A criminal gang? etc. (NB: um, not that I'm a foreign spy or a criminal!)

Changed to "any scientific purpose". In theory a criminal gang could apply, but I doubt they have the proven code or the benefit to the scientific community to beat the other candidates and the spies already have another supercomputer at ORNL so they don't need it! See the "Eligibility" and "Selection" sections of this for more info on how to apply for use of Titan. James086 ^Talk 17:23, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Although Titan is available for use by any project, the requests for use exceeded the computing time available, so selection criteria were drawn up." - the tense changes here.

Changed to "requests for use exceed..." James086 ^Talk 17:23, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Thirty-one codes will be run on Titan throughout 2013, typically four or five at any one time.[38][48] The code of many projects had to be modified to suit the GPU processing of Titan, but each code was required to still be capable of running on CPU-based systems so that the projects were not solely dependent on Titan." Again, a strange change in tense. Hchc2009 (talk) 19:43, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Changed (diff). Thanks for the comments. James086 ^Talk 17:23, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Quick fail It does not meet the good prose criterion of good articles. "Titan is an upgrade of Jaguar, a previous supercomputer at Oak Ridge, to use graphics processing units (GPUs) in addition to conventional central processing units (CPUs)." Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:46, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose on prose for now. Needs some major work. --John (talk) 21:48, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Graham Colm (talk) 15:43, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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