[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-10-05 05:24:37 +0000, JohnF said:

> Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> If you're thinking of basing this on Linux as I might suspect,
> Yeah, why not? Seems like the most straightforward approach.

Um, because you hadn't mentioned your preferred OS target, and I was guessing.

>> ...see which GPU vendor is currently making and keeping the Linux folks
>> happier; who has the better or more open drivers has varied over the
>> last couple of years.
> A not-so-veiled plug for nvidia?

I'm disinterested, though not uninterested; no horse in that race.

>> There's almost certainly a Linux HPC group or forum or resource around.
> Yeah, sorry for yet another off-topic, non-vms discussion.

That was intended as a "there are better folks to ask that" comment.
(Anybody that's popped up on IRC #vms knows I go off-topic, too.)

>> Current OS X includes OpenCL and some clever GCD threading syntax baked
>> into the clang compiler, if you have one of those boxes around.
> Thanks, again. Those are great search terms for an alternative
> framework. (Though no matter how open OpenCL is, OS X is way too
> closed for my liking. Linux gets the job done just fine, without
> leading me around like a bull with a ring through its nose.)

Or loosely translated into VMS terms, "see figure one": 
<http://www.dourish.com/goodies/see-figure-1.html>


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