EdGCM votes are for Linux

As Michael Ellerman recommended, I went & voted for a Linux implementation of the EdGCM climate modeller, and to my great surprise Linux is head of the pack, 38.6% versus 31.4% for the next competitor. Then 17%, 11.8% and the change is 1.3%.

I wonder if these guys realise that doing a Linux version will essentially do them a version for anything Unixy showing an X display?

On top of this, with XMing kicking around, that will give them simple access to lots of educational desktops. Why install anything when a shell account on the department’s mini gives anybody access to EdGCM?

Anyway, they’d counted 153 votes when I checked. A few more hits from us won’t really go astray, will they?

Comments

cdmsc said…

It's not that we are listening. But, EdGCM was written entirely in the 4th Dimension database language. We can't port to Linux unless 4D, Inc. creates a linux version of 4th Dimension.

05 December, 2006 13:50

Anonymous said…

You wrote: with XMing kicking around, that will give them simple access to lots of educational desktops. Why install anything when a shell account on the department’s mini gives anybody access to EdGCM?

This isn't a valid solution. You're running a GCM, it is extremely computationally intensive. You don't want shared resources, multiple running at once, etc. A dedicated desktop is better. Email and web-browsing will work while this runs, but you can't use the admins mini.

06 February, 2007 01:01

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