On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Paul Gress wrote: > 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.
There are certainly desktop High Performance Computing applications, but it's much more common for HPC nodes to be servers of some description. Generally they're biased towards large amounts of CPU power, and/or have multiple GPU cards installed, to provide lots of computational speed. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
