On 02/16/12 01:44 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
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
Yes, that's what I was using in fact
[drkirkby@blackcap ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 7)
#CentOS release 4.7 (Final)
I had to edit /etc/redhat-release to fool the software to thinking it was on a
Redhat 4.7 system, when in fact it was CentOS 4.7.
Oracle Linux is also I believe a clone of Redhat - perhaps not such a close
clone as CentOS. I assume Oracle add something to it. 4
The point I was making is that if a company like Ansys decide to support Windows
HPC Server 2008 R2, whilst only supporting a very limited number of OSs, they
must believe that there is a business case for using an HPC application on Windows.
Volker Braun said:
"I seems HFSS is really a desktop program that scales up to reach the bottom of
what can be considered HPC"
I can't argue with his comments, as there's no formal definition of HPC, but I
do disagree that there is zero penetration of HPC to Windows, which was his
earlier comment.
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