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To: Scumbria who wrote (29110)	2/21/2001 9:45:02 AM
From: minnow68	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Scumbria, You wrote "3. P4 might be a good machine for a few scientists who run their own compiled floating point apps" IMHO, this is only true if they purchase the Intel C compiler in addition to Visual C++ (which also means that they can't be running Linux or Unix). Our good scientist would also have to be able to compile his app with the Intel compiler, and trust that the results are valid. Having used the Intel C compiler (admittedly V4.0), I would _never_ trust that compiler. IMHO, what Intel shipped to me should have never been released, let alone charged for. Mike

To: Scumbria who wrote (29110)	2/21/2001 12:36:22 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Scumbria, with all the Dow companies laying people off, corporate buying has to be down. Retail looks like AMD everywhere. I will assume Athlon/Duron Retail Sales are doing fairly well. M.

To: Scumbria who wrote (29110)	2/27/2001 9:25:27 AM
From: fp_scientist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Scumbria, Re: 3. P4 might be a good machine for a few scientists who run their own compiled floating point apps. Well, that's me. We have looked for FORTRAN compilers for the P4 that would run under Windows and/or Linux but have not found one yet that will take full advantage of the hardware. Do you know of any? Last time I checked with the Portland group they did not have anything significant to show ... BTW, noticed that you graduated from Rice. That's where I teach. fp ("floating point")