[Info-vax] OT: Intel dusts off old supercomputing technology

[Arne Vajhøj]

Michael Moroney wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> pos wrote:
>>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/folding_at_home.html
> 
>>> - the reason the folding software will not run on IA64 or alpha is?
> 
>> Apparently Folding at home is not supported on VMS.
> 
> I find it puzzling that folding at home has client code for PC graphic
> cards (not just the PCs themselves, the graphics card CPUs) as well
> as playstations, but not for what is still a general purpose OS like VMS?

You will need a bloody big VMS system to deliver the same
performance as a XXX $ GPU (for that purpose !).

Arne