Lorenz Blum
2005-05-11 19:23:19 UTC
Auszug aus http://lcc.chem.msu.ru/gran/gamess/systems.html:
What is the best PC operating system to run GAMESS?
To our opinion, choosing Linux (as well as other free UNIX-type OS like
FreeBSD, etc...) as the base environment to compile and then to run GAMESS
(as well as any other scientific software that is available to the users
only in its source form) can very often result in very inefficient usage of
CPU and other system resources. This problem is not related to the Linux
itself, but mainly to the peculiar philosophy of Linux users, and to the
lack of freely available high quality Fortran and C compilers. Although
there is a lot of available commercial compilers of higher quality, it
seems that the mentality of most Linux users forces them to use only free
software, including compilers. Unfortunately, almost any person who uses
Linux to perform various scientific calculations, uses also "free and
cheap" gcc, egcs, f2c/gcc, or g77 as compilers. Thus, the usage of bad
Fortran and C compilers leads to the really poor performance of GAMESS and
other calculation-intensive programs. In fact, such GAMESS versions use
typically from 50 to 10 percents only of the real power of the systems they
are running on.
Die Benchmarks die sie gemacht haben bestätigen obere Aussage. Jetzt frage
ich mich: Sind denn die freien Compiler wirklich schlechter oder haben die
nur keine Ahnung...???
gruss
lori
What is the best PC operating system to run GAMESS?
To our opinion, choosing Linux (as well as other free UNIX-type OS like
FreeBSD, etc...) as the base environment to compile and then to run GAMESS
(as well as any other scientific software that is available to the users
only in its source form) can very often result in very inefficient usage of
CPU and other system resources. This problem is not related to the Linux
itself, but mainly to the peculiar philosophy of Linux users, and to the
lack of freely available high quality Fortran and C compilers. Although
there is a lot of available commercial compilers of higher quality, it
seems that the mentality of most Linux users forces them to use only free
software, including compilers. Unfortunately, almost any person who uses
Linux to perform various scientific calculations, uses also "free and
cheap" gcc, egcs, f2c/gcc, or g77 as compilers. Thus, the usage of bad
Fortran and C compilers leads to the really poor performance of GAMESS and
other calculation-intensive programs. In fact, such GAMESS versions use
typically from 50 to 10 percents only of the real power of the systems they
are running on.
Die Benchmarks die sie gemacht haben bestätigen obere Aussage. Jetzt frage
ich mich: Sind denn die freien Compiler wirklich schlechter oder haben die
nur keine Ahnung...???
gruss
lori
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It's better to have K only as Desktop Environment. Or would you like K OS?
It's better to have K only as Desktop Environment. Or would you like K OS?