On 02/15/12 01:40 AM, Volker Braun wrote:
While it would be an funny retro-computing exercise,
No, it would be a painful one. Even if you could install it, most modern
software would not run on it.
I don't think Windows
NT 3.51 can run on Power7. It is binary compatible under certain conditions
but i'd be surprised if a whole OS can escape all caveats.
Perhaps. I'll leave you to try if you think it would be funny!
I actually know one or two Windows-based HPC clusters in academic research.
In the cases I know, they are the result of donations from Microsoft...
Ansys don't tend to support a lot of operating systems.
* On Linux they only support Redhat 4 and 5, and SUSE 10 and 11.
* On Windows they only support XP, 7 and Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.
So Windows Vista, and all the free Linux distributions like Ubuntu are not
supported. Neither is OS X.
http://www.ansys.com/Support/Platform+Support/Ansoft+Products+14.0
The fact they do support Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 makes me think they have
serious customers paying serious amounts of money to use it. HFSS is *very*
expensive. A single HFSS license for one machine is around $100 k using just one
solver. So I very much doubt one could get a commercial HFSS license for an HPC
cluster for under $500 k.
Academic licenses are much cheaper, so I doubt Ansys would support Windows HPC
Server 2008 R2 just because a few universities have HPC clusters donated by
Microsoft. I believe they must have serious commercial customers using HPC on
Windows. But I might be wrong of course.
Dave
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