On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:45:39 +0200 (IST), Orna Agmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Ehud Karni wrote: > > This is all dedicated servers running "off the shelf" software (except > > may be the "number crunchers" what are they used for ?). > > Number crunching servers are used for running CPU-hungry processes, > usually floating point calculations. Typically those would be various > numerical simulations, solving of large matrices, Monte Carlo > calculations, etc.
Don't humiliate me. I know what are "number cruncher" and what are they used for (I'm a physicist by education and worked on weather applications). My question (obviously not understood) was: what these specific servers used in TAU (Are they used for some specific departments - physics, economics or specific tasks) ? I have another related question: are there bigger dedicated number cruncher in TAU (possibly SGI or CRAY) ? Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Better Safe Than Sorry ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
