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On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 01:25:49 +0900 besus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Daniel,
>
> Why do you think it unusual approach ?
> Is Microsoft Windows unsuitable for HPC?
>
I think that cost will be an issue. it was raised by the parallel
group at Imperial wehn I asked if they would use windows on their
clusters.
I have an evaluation
version from Microsoft, but I haven't had a chance yet to
install it on my set up at home.
the third party software includes
mpi pro
cluster controller
visual fortran 6.6a
cheers
> I am guessing that high-performance Computing is possible
> when many computers connected on network compute in palallell with .NET.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Yoshihiro Itou
>
> Daniel Kidger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Dear Yoshihiro,
> > This would be vary interesting - to date I have not heard of anyone
> > considering using .NET for Parallel Computing.
> > I guess there must me some people out there using Microsoft Windows for
> > Fortran based high-performance Computing but they must be a rare breed -
> > does anyone know of anyone considering this unusual approach ?
> >
> > Yours,
> > Daniel.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > Dr. Dan Kidger, Quadrics Ltd. [log in to unmask]
> > One Bridewell St., Bristol, BS1 2AA, UK 0117 915 5505
> > ----------------------- www.quadrics.com --------------------
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: besus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 20 February 2003 15:43
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: mpi
> >
> >
> > Please let me take an advantage and ask a question.
> > Please tell me example or information using Parallel Computing on .NET.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > ------------------------------------
> > Yoshihiro Itou
> >
> > Harvey Ricrdson - Sun UK Principal Systems Engineer
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Replying to two messages at once...
> > >
> > > > I've been asked for a course on parallel
> > > > programming by our mech eng department.
> > >
> > > "Parallel Programming" is a much larger topic than MPI.
> > >
> > > EPCC developed a course with JISC funding so you might
> > > want to see if that is available to save you some effort.
> > > Their document archive has pointers to the course notes.
> > >
> > > > > i was thinking of mpi and would look at
> > > > >
> > > > > solaris
> > > > > linux
> > > > > windows 2000/xp
> > > > >
> > > > > what implmentations are people on the list using at the moment?
> > >
> > > This implies a practical programming content (I'm all for that).
> > > In which case you might also want a parallel debugger in addition
> > > to just an MPI runtime environment.
> > >
> > > > Sun SMPs come with their own HPC libraries (don't remember how it's
> > called),
> > > > including MPI. It's not cheap, so people are sing MPICH as well.
> > >
> > > Please see
> > >
> > > http://www.sun.com/servers/hpc/software/tryandbuy.html
> > >
> > > for free downloads and source versions of HPC ClusterTools
> > > for SMPs and clusters.
> > >
> > > Harvey Richardson
> > > Global Customer Benchmarking
> > > Sun Microsystems
--
Ian
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