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Re: CFD on Xserve clusters?




Am 30.09.2004 um 16:43 schrieb Christopher Wright:

I hear rumors from time to time about ports to Mac OSX from ANSYS.

There might be another option.

As ANSYS for AIX/PPC already exists, it could run inside a software emulation package. As IBM's RS/6000, IBM's IntelliStations and Macs share the CPU instruction set, this type of emulation can be quite fast. Instead of your VirtualPC/x86 experiences, think about a 10 % performance drop compared to a equal IBM machine, only. Likely to be faster than 68k emulation in Classic.

There are two principal types of emulation: either emulate the whole hardware like "qemu" does it. Or, code a loader for AIX binaries and put some shim libs between OS X and the application. I'm currently investigating the latter version.


Best, Markus

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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
http://www.jump-ing.de/



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