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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Michael Moroney schrieb:
> 
>> It wasn't a question about numbers (I'm fully aware about the number 
>> of PC
>> GPUs vs. VMS systems), it was a question on how easy it must be to
>> implement a client on VMS vs. GPUs, although the motivation to tap that
>> admittedly large supply of CPU horsepower would be rather high.  A PC
>> graphics card doesn't exactly come with a run time library suitable to 
>> run
>> number crunchers, and I'm sure loading an actual program onto, and 
>> getting
>> results from, a graphics card requires some Windoze hackery.  Meanwhile,
>> an OS that was originally designed as a number cruncher in part doesn't
>> have a client.  Seti at home was dropped since the newer BOINC code wasn't
>> easily ported.
> 
> The days VMS was used for raw number crunching are long gone
> (did it ever make it in the upper half of the Top 500 ?)
> and somehow I doubt that it was better suited for this
> purpose than any other OS.

What, if anything, does the O/S have to do with number crunching?
I would think that the hardware would govern!

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