Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
Then it'll have soon better drivers than linux too for highend network
cards,
who no longer will release.
Quadrics/Myrinet/Infinipath folks... care to comment? Somehow I don't
really think that this makes sense, cutting off a $4B+ market growing at
60+%/year in order to service a market of questionable size, growth
rate, and interest, not to mention longevity, but stranger things have
happened.
And in the end what matters is that visual studio 2005 and newer is
simply 20% to 50% faster for most codes
than GCC. GCC suffering from bugs everywhere with pgo still and somehow
it isn't really faster for K8.
??? I have heard VS called many things. Fast is not one of them.
Who will be so stupid to port his parallel program to MPI?
Er.... uh.... maybe those folks who want the performance that a
distributed memory application can provide? Hey I like OpenMP, I think
the programming paradigm is great. It is hard to get good performance on
shared memory above certain sizes of CPU. Your code starts looking a
great deal more like an explicitly parallel code (MPI) than a shared
memory code.
Waste of time! They work for windows or they don't work at all!
Let's all grow up. MPI will be soon history when m$ takes over.
Hmmmm. I rarely bet, but I would bet against this.
[...]
Now you can of course still keep running your years 80 software and hope
it'll keep working in future, but in how far all this
is realistic is not real visible. One day you'll retire and then there
is not many left that will run that software.
Curiously enough, software I wrote/compiled using QuickBasic 4.5 in 1988
still runs on my XP laptops. No rebuild. There werent many DOS/windows
versions of fortran available back then that a grad student could afford.
[...]
Vincent
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