At 07:06 21.11.2008, Greg Lindahl wrote:
A while back a customer of PathScale issued a press release about how
they were running Windows on their supercomputer, with InfiniPath
interconnect. We were kinda surprised, since we didn't have Windows
drivers.
So I was curious about the Dawning 5000A... the previous supercomputers
in this series ran Linux. But the top500 entry trumpets Windows. Well...
http://tyan.com/newsroom_pressroom_detail.aspx?id=1289
This press release says it runs Linux and Windows. That's a bit more
credible; I wonder if they actually had to buy the Windows software?
The top500 list is not very trustworthy in my
opinion. I guess I posted an example some years
ago of a Myrinet cluster on the list owned by
Statoil (Norwegian Oil company). Only problem was
that Statoil didn't have any Myrinet clusters.
They had clusters with the same spec except the
interconnect though. So the entry kinda depicted
_if_ that cluster had been equipped with Myrinet,
_then_ it would (could?) have been able to achieve the result.
Håkon
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