July 2008 - Posts
Any Intro to Unix class teaches students about the beauty of fork() exec(), the two classic calls that allow a user to create a child process. While creating processes on Unix systems are common, creating new processes under the win32 API is a very expensive
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The Microsoft HPC solution comes with an enhanced MPI stack. For sure, it is not the only MPI stack that runs on windows. ANL has an mpich2 mpi stack, so does HP. How does MSMPI differ from the ANL one, of which it is based on? 1. MSMPI comes in both
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The download is available on connect.microsoft.com. You'll have to get a "liveID" using your email address, if you haven't gotten that already. The download process has 3 steps: 1. Search for windows HPC under CONNECTION DIRECTORY, SERVER, then HPC (at
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