On 08/ 4/10 01:15 PM, Matthias Pfützner wrote:
As others have mentioned, CUDA and OpenCL are also useful on servers. I guess, I'm getting, where you're after... IF you want DESKTOPS, you need to have someone certify them (HCTS), so that they appear in the HCL (Sun/Oracle isn't in that business currently/any more). Solaris/OpenSolaris does not care, if it's run on a workstation or a server, it runs on all... ;-)
Almost, you need apps to run on them. Desktop apps would be Gimp, Openoffice, Gnucash, etc. Workstation apps are MCAD, ECAD, Software for CATSCAN, Software for Molecule modeling, Weather prediction, and so on. They require much more computer horsepower. Just certifying a platform doesn't create demand. Sun years ago had this industry, the same as SGI had the Motion Video industry. It seems Sun or Oracle let this go at acquisition time. By stopping this, they saved a lot of money for development and paying various partners/vendors to continue development on Solaris. Yes, this is how I see it, Sun had to pay Adobe for acroreader on the X86 platform. I believe that has stopped here. You will see upgrades to the 9.XX line (paid for), but not 10.XX line (not paid for). Unless Larry sees a profit, it won't happen. This is how I believe Larry made Sun profitable in the recent quarter. He stopped the bleeding of money to various vendors to keep a non-profitable market open.
Larry sees the profitable market as servers and databases. HPC, won't help databases. HPC (high performance computers) basically are derived from servers with additional components added to them to make them function as a workstation, this is my interpretation, I'm sure some one will probably correct me if I'm wrong. I don't believe Oracle is going to be pursuing this industry. It doesn't help databases.
Paul
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