On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:14 PM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote: > I know it is not suitable for heavy duty scientific computing on R > (say) ....and others do not recommend it either. >
Thats why I say your knowledge is limited. But at least you could have done a "BSDs in scientific computing" in google before you posted this. The "others" you mention are equally ignorant. This is the problem when you are in a GNU/Linux pond. Just a few URLs to start with. http://www.freebsdnews.net/2008/04/19/freebsd-clustering/ http://bsdnetwork.co.nr/ In many European Universities BSD is the preferred choice for this kind of tasks due to their stability. Just to burst you Linux perfomance Myth. http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2009-06/msg00042.html http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2009-06/msg00044.html This was 3 years back when SMP support was maturing on dragonfly. Now that dragonfly has much improved scalability it beats Linux in SMP perfomance too http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/12/02/26/0436216/dragonfly-bsd-30-released Earlier a test was done with scientific linux. It perfomed well but was usless after some time http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-11/msg00008.html I am not putting down linux. I use many distros of it. But the reality is that while Linux shows good perfomance numbers in skewed perfomance tests it becomes less and les responsive and it freezes as load increases where as BSDs keep going providing the services. More than 10 years back when I started in this field I too got the same advice you got. But I tried stuff and found out for myself that they were false. And I used the right technology for the right purpose rather than fanatically following a particular crowd and their opinions. Have a good day! --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
