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The windows team works closely with hardware makers to support new and upcoming specialized hardware. This enables hardware makers to focus on hardware bring up
by aldebran 5y ago
The windows team works closely with hardware makers to support new and upcoming specialized hardware. This enables hardware makers to focus on hardware bring up and not worry about OS support.
There are many technologies that work first or better until a certain time on Windows. For example (not necessarily HPC related) SMR drive support.
- bee_rider 5y agoI definitely agree that if I had to get some random device working, Windows is probably a good first OS to try. But since Linux has such a large supercomputer/cluster/cloud presence, the situation is sort of flipped for HPC. At least as far as I've seen -- most numerical codes seem to target the Unix-verse first, and the only weird drivers you need are the GPU drivers (actually I haven't tried much GPGPU out, but I believe the Linux NVIDIA GPGPU drivers aren't the same horrorshow that their desktop counterparts are).
- pjmlp 5y agoSpeaking for the time I used to be at CERN, while the cluster is fully UNIX based, there is a big crowd of researchers running visualisation software, and other research related work on Windows e.g. Matlab/Tableau/Excel, and nowadays I assume macOS as well (it was early days for it 20 years ago).
- bee_rider 5y agoI was thinking more of the number crunching bits, rather than visualization, since the original issue was around performance. But I guess visualization can be computationally cruncy too.