In gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel, you wrote: > 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.
Centos is essentially a free clone of Redhat distro's. Most everything that runs on Redhat would run on Centos without any problem. Dima -- 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
