Re: [Beowulf] Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications

2009-02-24 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Rajib Bandopadhyay wrote: > Dear friends, > Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications? Will they run > faster? > Regards, > Rajib Bandopadhyay All? No. A select few, yes! For example, Mathematica has a parallel toolkit and most graphical rendering applications can distribute load. Pe

Re: [Beowulf] Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications

2009-02-24 Thread Nifty Tom Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:06:26PM -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > As it is, almost by DEFINITION parallelization of desktop apps doesn't > matter, in human terms, except that it would probably slow them down. > With the possible exception set of improvements that multicore addresses. The

Re: [Beowulf] Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications

2009-02-24 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, John Hearns wrote: 2009/2/24 Robert G. Brown : In general, however, they will not run faster.  In order for an application to run faster, it has to be written to run in parallel, and most desktop applications are not. Interestingly enough, my local Linux User Group rece

Re: [Beowulf] progress on ifort and gfortran issue

2009-02-24 Thread Nifty Tom Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:49:58PM -, Paulo Afonso Lopes wrote: > > If you compile your code with -g (debugging support), and "just run" > normally, it should crash and create a core file in the working dir. (do a > ls -la to find it) > > If you gdb --core= it will point you to the offending

Re: [Beowulf] progress on ifort and gfortran issue

2009-02-24 Thread Paulo Afonso Lopes
If you compile your code with -g (debugging support), and "just run" normally, it should crash and create a core file in the working dir. (do a ls -la to find it) If you gdb --core= it will point you to the offending instruction (helps if you are running on the dir where you have your source code

Re: [Beowulf] Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications

2009-02-24 Thread John Hearns
2009/2/24 Robert G. Brown : >> In general, however, they will not run faster.  In order for an > application to run faster, it has to be written to run in parallel, and > most desktop applications are not. > Interestingly enough, my local Linux User Group recently had a discussion on the Reia lang

Re: [Beowulf] Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications

2009-02-24 Thread Tim Cutts
On 24 Feb 2009, at 6:10 am, Rajib Bandopadhyay wrote: Dear friends, Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications? Will they run faster? Beowulf is Linux, so yes, it can run them. Will it be faster? No. Virtually nothing in the desktop application space can handle parallel run

Re: [Beowulf] Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications

2009-02-24 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Rajib Bandopadhyay wrote: Dear friends, Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications? Will they run faster? Let's invert the question. A linux user with a beowulf can run all the desktop applications -- on their desktop, where they belong. The desktop in quest

[Beowulf] [p2s2-announce] Submission deadline for P2S2'09 workshop is extended to Mar. 6, 2009

2009-02-24 Thread p2s2-chairs
Dear Colleague: The International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2'09) Program Committee would like to remind you that the deadline for submission is quickly approaching. Full paper submission deadline is extended to March 6th, 2009. The

[Beowulf] Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications

2009-02-24 Thread Rajib Bandopadhyay
Dear friends, Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications? Will they run faster? Regards, Rajib Bandopadhyay ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/m

[Beowulf] progress on ifort and gfortran issue

2009-02-24 Thread f.cos...@cs.man.ac.uk
Dear Mark, Dmitri, Xavier, Dave, and Tom, thank you very much for your suggestions. First of all, I tried the compilation with -fbounds-check option and I did not get any error message. When I checked the site http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran our gfortran which shows: fu...@e3sfc32:~/ngs-fdcn-code>