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

Joe Landman landman at scalableinformatics.com
Tue Apr 10 08:42:51 PDT 2007


Geoff Jacobs wrote:
> Joe Landman wrote:
> <snip>
>> FWIW2: (and not a sun shill here) Studio 11 is *free*.  Doesn't seem to
>> generate as good (e.g. fast) code for linux as its commercial
>> competitors under linux (nor for that matter is the code it generates
>> under Solaris as fast as the code other compilers generate under Linux,
>> at least for my test cases)
> How comprehensive is the implementation of each element of Forte 11 (esp
> FORTRAN)?

Don't know, haven't used it extensively for codes.  Tried their C/C++ 
compiler.  Took quite a bit of effort to get it to work with the 
autoconf/gnu toolchain.  Almost gave up (e.g. it wasn't worth the effort 
anyway). GCC gave about the same performance in some cases, and about 
20% less in others.



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