Re: [Beowulf] Re: Q&A: BeOS and IBM Cell processor

2006-01-23 Thread Toon Knapen
Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > > A is trivial. > B is less trivial to most, but consider this. I bought a dual core > opteron 2.4Ghz, > under windows visual c++ 2005 professional edition is 10% faster as it > seems now > than any compiler is under *nix. Does '/any/ compiler under unix' include Paths

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Q&A: BeOS and IBM Cell processor

2006-01-23 Thread Douglas Eadline
> Now 10% is still not much. I do know there is colleges of mine where it is > actually 60% speedwin under windows. > Could you provide some detail to this claim? Without data such claims are worthless. -- Doug ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Q&A: BeOS and IBM Cell processor

2006-01-23 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
- Original Message - From: "Ed Karns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 5:51 PM Subject: [Beowulf] Re: Q&A: BeOS and IBM Cell processor q1) How about the BeOS? ... any reports on attempts or successes in using BeOS on clusters and multiprocessor systems? For

Re: [Beowulf] Naming Convention Survey

2006-01-23 Thread Luc Vereecken
At 08:28 PM 1/9/2006, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote: Simple question, likely a complicated answer. Cluster systems should have up to three distinct file systems: 1) a place to compile and keep "stuff" 2) a bit of disk to use while code is running 3) potential a bit of disk with special character

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Q&A: BeOS and IBM Cell processor

2006-01-23 Thread Mark Hahn
> q1) How about the BeOS? ... any reports on attempts or successes in > using BeOS on clusters and multiprocessor systems? > > Considering that the latest iterations of BeOS seems to have been > specifically targeted at multiprocessor, multitasking projects, this > might seem to be a natural

Re: [Beowulf] Recommendation for good book on beowulf network setup

2006-01-23 Thread Douglas Eadline
ClusterMoney.net has links to most known cluster books (anyone know of any others?) http://www.clustermonkey.net//component/option,com_weblinks/catid,39/Itemid,23/ > Would anyone have recommendation for good book on beowulf network design > and setup using gigabit networks? - also any recommenda

RE: [Beowulf] Re: Q&A: BeOS and IBM Cell processor

2006-01-23 Thread Kozin, I \(Igor\)
> q2) Anyone examining the IBM Cell processor? ... Is this processor > worthy of consideration for clusters and multiprocessor systems? > > Same, same for the IBM Cell processor = targeted at the future > multiprocessor markets and not just game systems (like Sony > Playstation 3). There ar

[Beowulf] Re: Q&A: BeOS and IBM Cell processor

2006-01-23 Thread Ed Karns
q1) How about the BeOS? ... any reports on attempts or successes in using BeOS on clusters and multiprocessor systems? Considering that the latest iterations of BeOS seems to have been specifically targeted at multiprocessor, multitasking projects, this might seem to be a natural ... and no