Super-Computer Competition!

[Phelk]

Some corrections...

~ First of all, Solaris (at least v7, a year or two ago) is very expensive to license for commercial use ~

Solaris 8 binaries are free for use on systems with 8 or fewer CPU's. <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/ " target="_new">http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/ </A>

~ Also, Solaris is referred to as "Slowaris" for a reason... ~

These tests were done on a 32bit x86 system. Solaris 8 is primarily tuned for the 64bit UltraSPARC III. The tests were like saying a mini will beat a porsche (As long as you take two wheels off the porsche first). More importantly the test mostly showed parallel processing of 2-4 tasks, Solaris is designed to run 1,000's of tasks concurrently, as such it has an inherent overhead on single threaded tasks. A well threaded program will perform far better on Solaris. <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-03/sunflash.20010321.2.html " target="_new">http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-03/sunflash.20010321.2.html </A> This is high-end but it shows what Solaris is all about.

<font color=blue> The Revolution starts here... as soon as I finish my coffee </font color=blue> 😱

 

[Kelledin]

Old Alpha workstations like the AXP150 were the same size as your standard desktop. I had one such workstation when I was working at MCI.

Kelledin

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[Guest]

venders and companys to me adn every where i worked are not end users where i am and have worked and have heard people talk about a end user is not a business or a co. a end user is a individual privite consumer. and if you have a 16 computer cluster at your house more power to ya. but you must have a nice house to fit all that in. just becuase i use a server dosnt meen i own one. and now can we get off of arrays and crap since this is way off base of thise post.

Computer Shop owner and Head tech.

 

[FUGGER]

I should be more up to speend on IBM technology, I thought bluegene was being built on campus in san diego, its capable of 10 teraflops from what im told.

Deepblue is another monster, and DOE has yet another rated at 2 teraflops (unknown pet name)

We are pushing for 7 teraflops by years end.

 

[Guest]

An end user is whoever sits down in front of the system and uses it. To say that only a home user is an end user ignores the majority of the PC market.

And no, I don't have a 16 CPU cluster at home. That one is only 5 CPUs

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.

 

[Guest]

i dont want to argue whats a end user or not this has yet still nothing to do with the post. i was simply pointing out what i ment by end user the other market we called the corperate market or business market. maybe its difrent there but all the places i go and have worked the home user was defined as end user. but i dont see a use for multi computer clusters but then again i dont do big number crunching or what ever. i simply have servers and workstations.

Computer Shop owner and Head tech.

 

[Guest]

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