On 14 February 2012 06:05, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The most common home computer is a game console. While techincally an XBox is a windows PC, very few normal Windows programs run on it. Some of my code has been run on a Sony Playstation 3, as well as a Cray supercomputer. http://atlc.sourceforge.net/ > Also, Windows has zero market share in HPC. I disagree with that statement. As you know, I'm not fan of Windoze, but I don't accept that Windoze has no market share in HPC. There are many HPC applications which support primarily Windows. HFSS http://www.ansoft.com/products/hf/hfss/ is one such example. I was recently speaking to one of their engineers, who said some customers had simultions taking weeks, so they would get Ansys (the vendor) to simulate them on more powerful hardware, reducing the time from weeks to days. HFSS supports both multi-processors on the one machine, as well as shared processors across a network and shared memory across a network. Speaking to one of the salemen, he said Windows was the most common platform for HFSS. One of the packages that can be used with HFSS (the free Antenna design kit), is only available on Windows, though the antenna design kit is certainly not particuly CPU intensive and I doubt a design would take more than 30 minutes. Personally I'd consider simulation software which takes days/weeks to simulate complex engineering problems to fall under the gategory of HPC, though I don't think there's any formal definition of HPC, so I could not really argue with you if you said such software was not. All similar packages to HFSS (EMPro, XCcell, CST etc) support Windows and Linux. Sometimes Solaris is supported, sometimes OS X too. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
