Re: [lustre-discuss] Running IBM Power boxes as OSSs?

2017-09-12 Thread Atchley, Scott
ORNL has also been working to improve the ARM client code. > On Sep 1, 2017, at 8:48 AM, Jones, Peter A wrote: > > Daniel > > We only routinely build/test with power clients but that’s because of > prioritizing limited testing resources towards what our customers were using > rather than avoi

Re: [lustre-discuss] Running IBM Power boxes as OSSs?

2017-09-12 Thread Atchley, Scott
In you run your Power8 or Power9 servers in little endian mode, this should not be an issue either. If there is an issue with Lustre server on ppc64le, I would expect it to be with the larger page size (64 KB) relative to the x86_64 page size (4 KB). The code exists for a ppc64le client to talk

Re: [lustre-discuss] Running IBM Power boxes as OSSs?

2017-09-12 Thread Atchley, Scott
ORNL cleaned up the ppc64le Lustre client code last year. We are running it here on our Summitdev cluster of Power8+Pascal GPUs. We upstreamed all of the patches as far as I know. > On Sep 1, 2017, at 7:48 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: > > my 0.02¢ > > This question is quite interesting considerin

Re: [Lustre-discuss] [HPDD-discuss] Time to kill off some old LND driver

2014-02-26 Thread Atchley, Scott
Hi Andreas, Myricom contacted me and said that they are not supporting it any longer. Feel free to delete it. Scott On Feb 24, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Scott Atchley wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > I do not know if anyone is still using mxlnd or not. > > I do not know if anyone at Myricom will provide su

Re: [Lustre-discuss] [HPDD-discuss] Time to kill off some old LND driver

2014-02-24 Thread Atchley, Scott
Hi Andreas, I do not know if anyone is still using mxlnd or not. I do not know if anyone at Myricom will provide support for it. Also, I am not sure if the MX kernel API is still fully maintained. I have CC'd h...@mryi.com in case they wish to comment. Scott On Feb 20, 2014, at 1:39 PM, "Dilg