On 02/14/12 11:01 PM, Volker Braun wrote:
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:16:04 AM UTC-8, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
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.
If its true that Anysys has a reasonably-sized cluster (say, 100+ nodes)
that they rent out to customers then I'm pretty sure it doesn't run on
Windows, especially if their own code is cross-platform. This is what I
meant. The fact that their code also runs on desktops doesn't make the
desktop a HPC platform.
http://www.ansys.com/ansysonwindows/ansys-performance-on-windows.pdf
says things like:
"Scale up to a cluster running Windows HPC Server 2008, and you'll be able to
consider more detailed and accurate simulations or study a range of design ideas
or operating conditions. Either way, you can leverage your existing Windows
expertise and IT infrastructure, and maximize the return on your investment in
simulation."
The University of South Florida obviously has HFSS
http://rc.usf.edu/trac/doc/wiki/HFSS
and states
"
***Batch Execution on Windows HPC***
Using Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, we can easily dispatch jobs that require more
resources than a desktop system can provide. Configuring your desktop
installation to work with the Windows HPC scheduler is a simple process."
I would have thought that is high performance computing on Windows.
I'm going on an HFSS course at the end of this month. I'll ask the engineer who
told me they rent out computer resources what OS they use for this.
Dave
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