Hi Gerry and Beowulf fans
Gerry Creager wrote:
Gus Correa wrote:
Here is the link to the CX1 on the Cray web site:
http://www.cray.com/products/CX1.aspx
You need MS Explorer to customize/price it.
I just knew you had to be wrong, but sure enough, I can't see config
options.
Thanks for your trust!
It's a show stopper for me. If I need IE to buy the system, it's not
likely to happen until A) there's an IE that runs natively on *nix,
and B) it doesn't have the myriad problems associated with IE in the
past.
BTW, the Cray web site was changed today,
and now I can configure/price the CX1 from Linux/Firefox.
Gus Correa
I do admit to a sinking feeling when I noted that the front page (and
of course, the subsequent pages) were ASPX...
I suspect Microsoft has been listening here. I also suspect this
machine will do ok in the business world, but somehow I doubt they're
gonna see significant headway in a lot of the scientific arenas. If
you aren't computer literate, you're not likely to port a complicated
model from *nix to Windows, nor are you likely to write a significant
piece of code. I've a geodesist friend who DOES write solely for
Windows, but that's a conscious choice by someone who was a talented
computer scientist first, and a geodesist later in life. He uses
Windows because, well, mainly because the folks he teaches, and writes
code for, do. However, he's the exception.
The CX1 looks like something I'd love next to my desk -- with Linux on
it -- to accomplish testing before I take something to the big iron.
It might even allow me to pre- and post-process my data for hurricane
WRF runs. It's not hefty enough to let me do those runs in the
timeframe I require otherwise.
It's a tool, not a solution.
gerry
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