Re: IDL and Beowolf ?

[Paul van Delst <paul.vandelst(at)noaa.gov>]

dmarshall@ivory.trentu.ca wrote:
> 
> I just finished reading The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer by William W.
> Hargrove, Forrest M. Hoffman and Thomas Sterling in this months Scientific
> American
> http://www.sciam.com/2001/0801issue/0801hargrove.html
> And wondered if anyone had any thoughts/experience with running IDL
> applications on such a cluster.

I just read that article this morning. Veddy interesting. But if it is possible to
parallelise IDL code runs, would you need a license for each PC???  Cripes  :o))  *

paulv

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