May 25, 2009 17:36
15 yrs ago
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French term
France
mettre les petits plats dans les grands
French to English
Science
IT (Information Technology)
HPC
context:
Le calcul scientifique est décidément dans l’ère du parallélisme massif. Désormais, un supercalculateur qui se respecte met les petits plats dans les grands jusque dans ses microprocesseurs, dans lesquels plusieurs “cœurs” (“core” en anglais) travaillent côte à côte, en partageant des informations. Deux cœurs par puce est déjà un minimum, quatre banal, huit normal, on attend de pied ferme les puces à 16 cœurs, 32 cœurs et plus.
Le calcul scientifique est décidément dans l’ère du parallélisme massif. Désormais, un supercalculateur qui se respecte met les petits plats dans les grands jusque dans ses microprocesseurs, dans lesquels plusieurs “cœurs” (“core” en anglais) travaillent côte à côte, en partageant des informations. Deux cœurs par puce est déjà un minimum, quatre banal, huit normal, on attend de pied ferme les puces à 16 cœurs, 32 cœurs et plus.
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34 mins
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Native in English
Psychologist, Court-certified legal
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English
Related KudoZ points
:
24
Selected
put on thier Sunday best, strut their funky stuff
The origin behind this expression is in how etiquette determines the way you are supposed to lay the table correctly, i.e. : putting smaller plates into the dinner plates for serving the starter. A question of opinion. I always found it irritating to have the smaller plate sliding around on the dinner plate if the knife wasn't nice and sharp!
Back to business... Given the tone of the document, which is technical, there is of course nothing to prevent an idomatic bit of language to spice things up a bit. Depending on how free and funky you can get, the list of possibilities is endless.
A couple of suggestions :
From now on, any supercomputer worth its salt put on its Sunday best / struts its funky stuff right on into the microprocessors too, where several cores work side by side, sharing information.
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putS
Back to business... Given the tone of the document, which is technical, there is of course nothing to prevent an idomatic bit of language to spice things up a bit. Depending on how free and funky you can get, the list of possibilities is endless.
A couple of suggestions :
From now on, any supercomputer worth its salt put on its Sunday best / struts its funky stuff right on into the microprocessors too, where several cores work side by side, sharing information.
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Note added at 37 mins (2009-05-25 18:13:13 GMT)
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putS
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "thanks for your inspiring answer re: the tone of the document, helped me produce something a little less square and safe and more in keeping with the general tone of the article!"
21 mins
Shankaran Viswanathan
India
India
Native in French
&
English
Works in field
India
Satisfait ou remboursé
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France) 
, English (Variant: UK)
Works in: French to English, English to French, English to Hindi, and 3 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
5
imbricates its microprocessors
petit plats grand plats all this is not a good style for a technical document
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: Quite a few technical writings adopt spirited idiomatic language, if for professional press, and/or wider ranging audiences. makes them eminently more accessible to many, less frightened off. I woudl agree though that it woudl be surprising in a thesis..!
14 mins
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+1
13 mins
Ethele Salem Sperling
United States
United States
Native in French
United States
Accurate and Reliable Interpreter
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, French to English
To go out of one's way
That is what I would say
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Note added at 34 mins (2009-05-25 18:10:51 GMT)
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We can alos say to go above and beyond.
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Note added at 34 mins (2009-05-25 18:10:51 GMT)
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We can alos say to go above and beyond.
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Tony M
: In other contexts, yes — but doesn't really fit too comfortably into the sentence as given here.
2 hrs
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| agree |
Chris Walker
16 hrs
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+3
1 hr
polyglot45
Native in French
&
English
Native in: English , French
Works in: English to French, French to English, German to French, and 4 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
11
leave no stone unturned/pull all the stops out
any supercomputer worthy of the name busts its gut// spares no effort//leaves no stone untruned//pulls all the stops out// goes the extra mile
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Gabrielle Leyden
: "pulls out all the stops" seems best in this context
2 hrs
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| agree |
Tony M
: I would agree with the 'pulls out all the stops' option (only)
13 hrs
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| agree |
Chris Walker
: ditto "pulls out all the stops"
15 hrs
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-1
4 hrs
Omar Lima Quintana
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, French to Spanish, French to English, and 2 more.
Put the dishes in the great
Back to culinary field.
Peer comment(s):
| disagree |
Tony M
: Sorry, but not only would that be complete nonsense in EN (sounds like you are force feeding the washing-up down the throats of famous people!), it also wouldn't fit this context at all either!
10 hrs
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1 day 2 hrs
pays attention to every detail
Though not as colorful as the idiom used, this expresses the idea.
1 day 3 hrs
to operate in a big way
Another suggestion.
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Tony M
: Not too sure... we're talking almost on a micro scale here, so 'operate in a big way' sounds faintly odd to me...?
15 mins
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1 day 3 hrs
really push the boat out
This is pretty close to conveying the nuance of sentiment of the original expression, and I think it could just about be worked into the sentence as it stands...
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...right down to the µprocessors themselves
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...right down to the µprocessors themselves
1 day 13 hrs
dress to the hilt
... is dressed to the hilt, or to the microprocessor, where several cores...
I think this idiom has the same idea of "finery" as the French.
I think this idiom has the same idea of "finery" as the French.
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