running Fortran code on Linux

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:26:35AM -0400, James Knott wrote
> Walter Dnes wrote:
>   It would take a bit of analysis to decide where your bottleneck is.
> >If it's CPU bound, a faster CPU would help.  If it's disk access, get
> >more memory to cut down on swapping and consider moving temp files to
> >/dev/shm to reduce disk access.
> >
> 
> What's /dev/shm?

  Think of it as a dynamic ramdisk.  It only uses memory when it's
actually required.  Check your /etc/fstab and you should see an entry
there, unless it's an older distro.

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and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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