On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:01:59 Volker Braun wrote: > On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:16:04 AM UTC-8, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > is one such example. I was recently speaking to one of their engineers, > > who said some customers had simultions taking weeks, so they would get > > Ansys (the vendor) to simulate them on more powerful hardware, reducing > > the time from weeks to days. > > If its true that Anysys has a reasonably-sized cluster (say, 100+ nodes) > that they rent out to customers then I'm pretty sure it doesn't run on > Windows, especially if their own code is cross-platform. This is what I > meant. The fact that their code also runs on desktops doesn't make the > desktop a HPC platform.
I am not sure about ansys. We had licenses and binaries for IBM power on AIX. They are discontinuing it.... So we are looking for alternatives to run on power7 systems. Not sure if they have support for linux x86(_64) or if that will disapear too. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
