From: linas@austin.ibm.com
To: Bill Noffsinger <bnoffsi@acis.ufl.edu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Linux on IBM 9076 nodes
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:32:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040109123231.A52402@forte.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00c801c3d6d6$a9f818a0$7138e30a@ibm18437>; from bnoffsi@acis.ufl.edu on Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:33:15PM -0500
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:33:15PM -0500, Bill Noffsinger wrote:
>
> Our lab has recently acquired a 48-node IBM SP configuration based on
> 4-way "Winterhawk-II" Power3-2 wide nodes with 8 GB memory. I see on the
> Linuxppc site (boxes) that Linux is known to work on 9076-SP nodes
> (ours). How difficult is the port?
Port what?
I've recompiled & run both 2.4-marcelo, 2.4-redhat, 2.4-suse (which
are all very different) and 2.6-torvalds kernels on a 2-way power3 box
and 'it just works'. I can't imagine why it wouldn't 'just work' on
an SP.
I'm guessing that the hard part for you will be to get the interconnect
between the machines running. I assume this will need some funny
device driver for whatever the interconnect technology is (which you
didn't mention).
--linas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-09 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-09 17:33 Linux on IBM 9076 nodes Bill Noffsinger
2004-01-09 18:32 ` linas [this message]
2004-01-09 23:12 ` Remco Post
2004-01-10 0:37 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-01-10 13:02 ` Remco Post
2004-01-12 2:20 ` how to read/write registers of CPU or Device from user space John Zhou
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