RE: [Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed?

2008-04-19 Thread John Vert
ng the scheduler takes to submit, allocate, reserve, and activate a 1,000+ CPU job, I think you'll like that. This is really nothing to do with "Linux clusters" as it's largely a job scheduler issue and most job schedulers support multiple platforms. John Vert Development Manag

RE: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-04-06 Thread John Vert
MPI stack. We are looking at both of these for the next release but they didn't make V1. So like most product decisions, we didn't "have to do this" it was just the normal tradeoff you make between features and schedules with a healthy dose of security paranoia thrown into t

RE: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-04-06 Thread John Vert
tends to drop dramatically as soon as someone mentions Windows or Microsoft. John Vert Development Manager High Performance Computing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert G. Brown Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:59 AM To: Bill Bryce Cc: beo

RE: [Beowulf] MS HPC... Oh dear...

2006-06-15 Thread John Vert
practical experience. John Vert Development Manager Windows High Performance Computing > -Original Message- > From: Mark Hahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 6:22 PM > To: John Vert > Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: RE: [Beowulf] MS HPC... Oh d

RE: [Beowulf] MS HPC... Oh dear...

2006-06-13 Thread John Vert
ck through Winsock Direct. This enables low-latency usermode I/O at the sockets level. Any application that uses sockets will benefit from the high speed interconnect without relinking or recompiling. A C-style ABI is pretty straightforward, but once you throw Fortran a

RE: [Beowulf] noob understanding

2006-05-19 Thread John Vert
At the risk of starting another religious flame war, I'll point out that if you want to run a Windows application, you might want to consider a Windows cluster. http://www.microsoft.com/hpc has more information. John Vert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[