[Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe Landman landman at scalableinformatics.com
Mon Apr 9 05:44:15 PDT 2007



Toon Moene wrote:

>> 2.3 MB for hi.
> 
> Yeach.  This is Debian AMD64 GNU/Linux, using
> 
> $ gfortran --version
> GNU Fortran 95 (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
> $ gfortran hi.f
> $ ls -l a.out
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 toon toon 9754 2007-04-09 13:01 a.out
> 
> Doesn't pgf90 allow dynamic run time libraries ?

Yes.  gfortran is considerably better in terms of size of binary.  My
point was simply that compilation tends to produce significantly more
program text/symbols than one might expect.  4 GB is possible, though as
I think the argument is a straw man, I won't press it.


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