[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Chris Byrne]

Basically anything involving big number crunching SGI is pretty much
tops at. A fully loaded Origin system clocks out higher than about half
of those major custom supercomputers out there, and they have trully
massive data moving capabilities.

I havent seen benchamrks on the new 

You've got to remember that the tasks used in high end graphical
processing are often very similar (or identical) to high end scientific
or engineering computing. Things like geological imaging, thermographic
analysis, solids, structures, fluid and dynamic imaging, computational
fluid dynamics, really really big matrices, huge factorials, gigantic
transforms etc... SGI rocks.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of William S.
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 13:36
> To: The Geeks List
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Daily Dose of Unix
> 
> 
> Chris,
> 
> Just curious how Irix is best suited for the scientific
> community? Which areas of science and which applications?
> 
> Sorry if the answer should be obvious.