The Limits of Reproducibility in Numerical Simulation
Kai Diethelm · Computing in Science & Engineering · 2011
Modern computational simulation's increasing and mainly speed-oriented use of HPC systems often conflicts with the goal of making research reproducible. Indeed, the simulations that result from HPC use often behave reproducibly in only a limited way As a discussion of this phenomenon's technical background describes, the problems entailed will be very difficult to overcome.