[Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Toon Knapen]

Robert G. Brown wrote:
> 
> In the current case if the government says "we will not fund any cluster
> and research software development that uses non-portable constructs in
> their MPI implementation" 


But their (MPI) API is still standard conforming. The way they 
integrated it (in the OS) is a bit different. IIUC they have their own 
queue-ing system on top (or integrated). But OTOH neither SGE or PBS or 
whatever is standard.

So from a programmer's POV, they conform to the MPI standard. From the 
user's POV (how to launch a job or how to submit a job to a queue) there 
was never any standard.

toon