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

[Mike Davis]

Also FWIW, We've limited our Studio 9,10,11 usage to Solaris thus far. 
The performance under Solaris 10 on both sparc and x64 has thus far been 
superior to Gnu. I haven't done a side by side of the same app with both 
linux and Solaris.


Joe Landman wrote:
> Geoff Jacobs wrote:
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>> Joe Landman wrote:
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>>> 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)?
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> 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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