From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA05862 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 00:03:18 -0700 Message-Id: <200011200705.XAA18181@milano.cup.hp.com> To: Sandy Harris Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Host for 712/60 compiles In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:54:58 PST." <3A15FD92.DEB522FE@storm.ca> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:05:26 -0800 From: Grant Grundler List-ID: Sandy Harris wrote: > A couple of us have 16 diskless 712/60s which we want to use for distributed > processing on easily parallelized tasks like factoring and perhaps crypto > cracking. A few questions arise. > > Is PARISC Linux far enough along to be useful for that? We need no monitor or > console (except perhaps for initial debugging), no devices except ethernet, > and expect to run only one process per machine, but we need stability. It's not rock solid. On 712's, it should be pretty good though. > We'll need a host for cross-compiling. We have a 256 meg 715/100 with HP/UX > which we expect to use as the host for booting, handing out chunks of work, > storing results, etc. Should we compile there under HP/UX or would we get > better tools on one of our Intel Linux boxes? I don't think anyone has tried to cross-compile parisc-linux on an HPUX host in quite a while. > Or is PARISC Linux far enough along we should put it on the 715 and get > native compilation? AFAIK, all of the debian packages on the ISO image are built natively. But using a dual P700 linux box would be alot faster. :^) grant Grant Grundler Unix Systems Enablement Lab +1.408.447.7253