Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:06:51 08/23/05
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On August 23, 2005 at 15:22:23, A. Cozzie wrote: >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 OK. I will probably get on about 8pm CDT. That gives me time to get out of class at 6:45 and then head to the house and eat. Will be interesting to see you report speedup for 1,2,4,8 on this box. I'm running such tests myself so I will have some data for everyone to look at pretty soon...
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