Re: tlug: Re: multi-processor linux configuration ?

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

>> You may want to consider which Linux system to use based upon the
>> compiler. TurboLinux 2.0 uses gcc. TurboLinux 3.0 will use egcs, which
>> handles C++ better and delivers faster code by as much as 25%.
>
>C/C++ do not parallelize very well.  If they're really serious about
>parallel programming on linux, they'd be better off doing their work in
>fortran (which parallelizes very well) and purchasing a decent compiler
>like PGI (which pretty much automagically groks MPI).

Do you have any more information on this?

I'd have thought the problem was with applications that parallelize well
and those that don't, and the language is of secondary importance.

Darren

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