On Tuesday 18 February 2003 06:56, Herbert Fruechtl wrote:
> > I've been asked for a course on parallel
> > programming by our mech eng department.
> >
> > i was thinking of mpi and would look at
> >
> > solaris
> > linux
> > windows 2000/xp
> >
> Windows? Get yourself an operating system! :-)
>
> Herbert
Small Windows MPI clusters have occasionally been able to out-perform
equivalent linux clusters. Only with more than 16 CPU's has linux
consistently out-performed Windows. We're advocating Fortran and MPI here,
not a specific OS.
--
Tim Prince
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