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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Scientific computing under Unix
Message-ID: <9964@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 88 16:16:21 GMT
References: <5972@nswitgould.OZ> <43200014@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <1187@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1187@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> deke@ee.rochester.edu (Deke Kassabian) writes:
| 
| In article <43200014@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
| >F77 is slow, slow, slow.  If you want fast, fast, fast fortran for scientific
| >computing, use Alliant's FX/FORTRAN.  We're talking FAST!  Very VAX/VMS Fortran
| >compatible.  Bucks per megaflop, can't be beat.
	[ I think Encore and Convex would argue that point ]
| 
| Well if your code lends itself to vectorization and concurrency, this is true.
| But Alliant FX/FORTRAN requires an Alliant FX computer...not for everyone.

  One of the points against multi-processor computers vs uni-processor,
given that both have the same total power, is that some programs just
don't allow more than one processor to be used. In those cases the
uni-processor, with a faster processor, will run much faster, assuming
that there is CPU available. This applies only to machines where there
is available CPU.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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