randy@chaos.unr.edu (Randy F. Hall) (03/11/90)
We are thinking about buying some sun workstations. Our group is a bunch of physical chemists. Our main computer need is number crunching. I heard a rumor that there was some serious problems with the fortran compiler for sun workstations? Can anyone verify or unverify this rumor? Randy Hall University of Nevada, Reno Chemistry Department Reno, Nevada
raw@math.arizona.edu (Rich Walters) (03/11/90)
In article <3684@tahoe.unr.edu> randy@chaos.unr.edu (Randy F. Hall) writes: > > >We are thinking about buying some sun workstations. Our group is >a bunch of physical chemists. Our main computer need is number >crunching. > >I heard a rumor that there was some serious problems with the fortran >compiler for sun workstations? > >Can anyone verify or unverify this rumor? > We use SUNS here at UofA for medium number-crunching. No problems with fortran here. Did you here this rumor from a salesperson of a competeing manufacturer? Richard Walter PS We use Crays for heavy number crunching. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keep on crunching those numbers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent Besler) (03/27/90)
In my personal experience I was never able to put Ampac or Mopac 5.0 up with f77 on a sun 3. However under SunOS 4, a combustion modeling code(HCT from Livermore) went up OK. I would test some of the codes you want to put up on the machine on a demo machine. Most computer companies are willing to let people test there codes on a machine before buying it. The Dec 3100 workstation has been impressive. Mopac 5.0 and an earlier INDO code work fine and at about 11 times the speed of a Microvax.