While reading this article I couldn't understand why he would go to windows after becoming so much more fluent in Linux and *nix use. Ok so he listed his points, and yes, they are valid, X11 is a pain in the ass, esp for a single user environment where not more than one person is accessing the machine graphically. Point 2 so yeah the fonts suck.. Point 3, so compiling gets to be boring some times, and the other points( i dont feel like going on repeating his article) hold true to a certain extent. But why back to windows, when osX is built on Unix, with a strong GUI( that also looks great), and a very decent application base(considering you get to use both *nix and mac software). Hardware is not an issue considering that Apple makes sure their hardware works with their own OS. Plus you dont have to deal with the Microsoft BS that seems to grow each day.
Yeah I was helping a grad student the other day setting up a Windows cluster.. its not fun.. not terribly hard, but some of the requirments, and that stupid ass HCL that they have make things a bitch. I would think it would be more likely used for load balancing than anything else, sure you could use it for computational things, but the overhead that windows needs for the OS means that you would get less CPU power than if the system was a Beowulf one
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While reading this article I couldn't understand why he would go to windows after becoming so much more fluent in Linux and *nix use. Ok so he listed his points, and yes, they are valid, X11 is a pain in the ass, esp for a single user environment where not more than one person is accessing the machine graphically. Point 2 so yeah the fonts suck.. Point 3, so compiling gets to be boring some times, and the other points( i dont feel like going on repeating his article) hold true to a certain extent. But why back to windows, when osX is built on Unix, with a strong GUI( that also looks great), and a very decent application base(considering you get to use both *nix and mac software). Hardware is not an issue considering that Apple makes sure their hardware works with their own OS. Plus you dont have to deal with the Microsoft BS that seems to grow each day.
Yeah I was helping a grad student the other day setting up a Windows cluster.. its not fun.. not terribly hard, but some of the requirments, and that stupid ass HCL that they have make things a bitch. I would think it would be more likely used for load balancing than anything else, sure you could use it for computational things, but the overhead that windows needs for the OS means that you would get less CPU power than if the system was a Beowulf one
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