We've got one that we're not using... what would be involved in setting it up for use as a build/porter?
...brig ________________________________________ From: Bernd Zeimetz [be...@bzed.de] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:30 PM To: T.J. Yang Cc: Michel Schanen; debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Oracle Sun T5120 support getting better in debian 6.0.5 ? Hi, On 07/13/2012 03:20 PM, T.J. Yang wrote: > Hi, Michel > > Thanks for sharing your info on running Debian on Sun T5120. I really > appreciate this. > > I haven't made the switch yet. I will probably start with running the > test using LDOM since I don't have a physical T5120 for testing. the debian project also doesn't have a T5120 or similar machine - would be nice to have as a buildd/porter box to ensure the sparc port keeps going on. Just in case somebody has a spare one ;) Cheers, Bernd > > tj > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Michel Schanen > <michel.scha...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> we installed Debian SPARC 6.0.3 on 20 Sun T5120 Enterprise nodes >> interconnected with infiniband cards and onboard network cards. The >> infiniband cards are very buggy and only work over IP. Problem is that there >> are no supported infiniband drivers for Linux/SPARC. >> >> I recommend the Debian installation guide for SPARCs. We used the TFTP >> method, which worked fairly well. We ran into the same trouble as you when >> connecting a CDROM drive. >> >> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch04s03.html.en >> >> Only trick was that the image had to be named after the IP of the >> installation target, e.g. 192.168.0.2 -> C0.A8.00.02 >> >> We received these cluster nodes at no costs and we use them essentially for >> simulation codes/testing. As the tools are all SPARC and not SPARC64 we had >> some problems using OpenMP. For instance the atomic statement was very slow. >> After compiling gcc with arch=SPARC64 we had a considerable performance >> boost using OpenMP. In the end, all our development tools are now recompiled >> with arch=SPARC64. >> >> Other than that, everything works flawlessly! NFS crashes after some weeks >> of uptime. Therefore we do a weekly reboot. >> >> You will be able to log in to the ILOM SPs over SSH and eventually to your >> system console. >> >> Oh and don't forget to recompile your kernel with 64 CPU support. Otherwise >> you will be stuck with 32 or something. >> >> Michel > > > -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50186aa9.4030...@bzed.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/523a9a3871570244a740476d1438929e0281e...@bl2prd0710mb362.namprd07.prod.outlook.com