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 KAA13947 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:53:42 -0700 Sender: carlos@megatonmonkey.net Message-ID: <3A69D224.E13F3BD2@home.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:00:04 -0500 From: "Carlos O'Donell Jr." Reply-To: carlos@baldric.uwo.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jcarlson@macalester.edu CC: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com, paul@baldric.uwo.ca Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] ftp, gcc, etc... References: <14688115.3188896052@chem42.chem.macalester.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: Josiah, Hello parisc-linux! (Yes, this is my first time posting to this list, to thank the hard workers and show you that something is coming out of your work!) My colleagues and I are building a 48 Node (715/50) PA-RISC cluster (http://baldric.uwo.ca). We are an Undergraduate Supercomputing intiative and we've been building clusters for the past two years, so if you would like to get in contact with us, we would be more than willing to help you out. Our original cluster setup had been using HPUX + MPI, but the combination was both painful and difficult. Thanks to the wonderful people on this mailing list, we have begun to switch our machines over to a softer more friendlier linux. > I was curious as to which package includes ftp as one of it's binaries. I would recommend just grabbing the ftp source and compiling it. An excellent exercise in XC or native compilation on a HPPA box. One day you will be forced to compile something. We have two XC boxes PIII/450 and PIII/700 doing compiles around the clock ;) > which packages do I need to install on the hp machine to allow configure, > make, gcc, etc... to work together? The standard NFS tarball has all the tools you'll need. I can run down what it is that you would need exactly, since we already have our cluster running 2 nodes and compiling using MPICH 1.2.1. We usually just: 1. rboot the machine. 2. init scripts format and copy the tarball to the drive. 3. second set of scripts configure. 4. reboot. 5. new node functional. For those of you who doubt it... I did natively compile MPICH 1.2.1 and it worked :P (And if Paul is reading this, don't reboot "puff"... I don't care if we forgot to compile in unix socket support!;) Just contact me at carlos@baldric.uwo.ca Cheers, Carlos O'Donell Jr. ----------------------------- Baldric Project University of Western Ontario http://www.baldric.uwo.ca -----------------------------