Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Sep 2005 11:13 UTC, submitted by Hakime Seddik
A startup on Tuesday unveiled plans at the Apple Expo here to build a distributed supercomputer cluster that could use some thousands of Apple's Xserve servers. The high-performance network will be installed along Europe's internet backbone, startup Omneta said.
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Why would computations be any slower in OS X than in Linux? Oh, they wouldn't. After all, the ars review is comparing MySQL performance, not computing performance.
Err, MySQL performance on OS X, but also looking at the inherent limitations of the OS X as a resultof that. If you don't think that's an issue you need to seek professional help for your Mac addiction.
Super computing is about more than just computation, otherwise you could use Windows as a supercomputer. Not suprisingly, few people do.
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Why would computations be any slower in OS X than in Linux? Oh, they wouldn't. After all, the ars review is comparing MySQL performance, not computing performance. The problems they made out where with creating threads (not something you'd want your supercomputer do all the time, you'd have a worker thread per CPU and that's it), and with MySQL insisting the data be written to disk synchronously (which Linux just ignores). Anyway, who knows what they are trying to accomplish...