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Subject: Re: God bless you, your people, and your Country Dr Robert,

Author: A. Cozzie

Date: 12:22:23 08/23/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 13:38:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>for planning, here's what you need to do:
>
>1.  create a .tar or .zip with everything you need.
>
>2.  You then will log into moat.cis.uab.edu (I will give you a username/password
>via email when you are ready).  You have to ftp/scp/sftp your .tar file to moat.
> Then you will use the same account and scp it to crafty.cis.uab.edu.
>
>3.  Next you ssh to crafty.cis.uab.edu and use the same username/password to log
>on there.  From that point, you will use a different username/password to log on
>to the opteron and also scp your files from my dual xeon up to the opteron.
>
>4.  At that point you are "on", with 4 x 875 processors, running SUSE linux (It
>says enterprise linux 9, but am not 100% sure about what that means).  It does
>have a NUMA-aware kernel and tries to schedule processes around local memory.
>
>This is a kludge, I know, but AMD is very restrictive about who can enter their
>development lab, since they have vendors working in there on commercial
>applications that they do not want to see "stolen or borrowed."
>
>Let me know when you want to try this, but sooner is better since I don't know
>how long it will be before they want to disassemble the thing and build
>something for the next user to play with...
>
>I'm still running SMP tests, but can easily stop them for a while for you to
>test, then can resume without problems...
>
>Bob
>
>BTW this has a version of gcc that will actually do profile-guided optimizations
>on Crafty, and also produces 64 bit code by default.  I think it is 3.3.3, but
>am not certain.  The most recent version on red hat RHE would crash when I tried
>to profile crafty.  It doesn't like something in all the 64 bit stuff I do...


OK.  I _really_ need to take a nap and buy food, but I will try to be on ICC
tonight at some sort of a reasonable time - say 7:00 ?

anthony



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