Re: [pooma-dev] Compile Time Problems and Pooma 2

[Dave Nystrom]

I just learned this afternoon that the chi machine has version 5.1 of Tru64
Unix installed.  KCC is currently available for 5.0 and they are trying to
get access to a machine with 5.1 to do the port of KCC to 5.1.

Dave

Julian C. Cummings  writes:
 > Dave,
 > 
 > I don't have an account on chi, but I do have an account
 > on the Compaq TeraScale machine at Pittsburgh Supercomputing
 > Center.  It has the same Compaq Tru64 operating system, but
 > I don't think they have KCC installed.  I should probably
 > have a look at building Pooma 2 there using the Compaq compiler.
 > I might be able to help Lee with Pooma 1 issues, but it would
 > make more sense to get an account on your chi machine first.
 > 
 > Julian C.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
 > From: Dave Nystrom <address@hidden>
 > Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:58:58 -0600 (MDT)
 > 
 > >
 > >I agree that the numbers I reported imply something strange going on with 
 > >our 
 > >SGI machine/compilers.  I thought it was strange enough that it should be
 > >reported to pooma-dev in case you guys had some insight into the problem 
 > >that 
 > >I was missing.  I'm not really looking for a platform specific solution from
 > >you guys.  Actually, my data indicates a temporary work around for the SGI 
 > >is 
 > >to just break up my files into much smaller files since the SGI C compiler
 > >seems to scale more like quadratic with the size of the .int.c files.  Of
 > >course I already have what I thought might be reasonable granularity there.
 > >The instantiation requests for the Pooma 2 assign functions are currently
 > >spread over 20 files.  I probably need to talk to someone from SGI about 
 > >this 
 > >data and see if they know what is going on as well.
 > >
 > >I think that the SGI platform will be an important platform for our October 
 > >1 
 > >deadline.  To my knowledge, Lee Ankeny has not been successful yet getting
 > >any of our Pooma 1 based code compiling on the Compaq machines.  Perhaps 
 > >that 
 > >will change with the recent release of KCC-4.0e for Tru64 Unix 5.0.  BTW, do
 > >you guys have accounts on the chi machine - an open Compaq machine?  I was
 > >under the impression that you were supposed to have accounts there now.  I'm
 > >worried about what compile times are going to be like on the Compaq as well.
 > >I don't know enough about the machine yet but I wonder if our parallel 
 > >builds 
 > >will be limited to 4 processors.
 > >
 > >-- 
 > >Dave Nystrom                        email: address@hidden
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 > >
 >