Linked by David Adams on Sat 6th Sep 2008 14:36 UTC
Microsoft's absurdist TV ad starring the odd couple of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld is just the first volley in what promises to be a shock and awe campaign aiming to improve the public image of Windows Vista and position itself as a computing innovator.
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As I had to discover the hard way, Windows cannot calculate correctly when the machine is under heavy load.
I am using 3 of four processor cores to solve a multi-body dynamic simulation (of a car engins), and using the 4th core to prepare the next model, using ABAQUS.
Whenever I do that, the simulation diverges after some time (but every time slightly differently). If I let the computer alone, the simulation runs through.
None of this happens with HPUX, IRIX, AIX or Linux. There I can run the simulation with all 4 cores, and still work with ABAQUS, effectively overloading the machine, but the simulation runs as it should.
It would be even more helpful than speed.