9 Oct
2008
9 Oct
'08
10:40 p.m.
On Oct 9, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Chris M wrote:
OI I know what supercomputers are used for.
Ahh. That's surprising, given your question. ;)
The essence of my question is are these things at all
user friendly?
It's a UNIX box, man. The most (programmer-)friendly OS in
existence. At least for even moderately technical people.
What familiar apps COULD be run if I was disposed to
want to?
Familiar apps? Well, pretty much anything that runs under UNIX,
possibly given some porting effort. Hell, my friend James Sharp
ported Apache httpd to my Cray J90 and ran a web server on it.
As far as "familiar apps", though...it's not exactly the type of
equipment you'd want to run Firefox on. But surely you have a modern
computer (or even a not-so-modern one, if you're still running
Windows) for stuff like that.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL