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

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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