Subject: Yellow Dog on RS-6000/43P
From: terry chay (chay@uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 19 1999 - 16:05:19 MDT
My advisor's research group won an RS-6000 through IBM and just
received it on Friday. The advantage of AIX's forgiving compiler and disk
management systems aside, the reality is they're hard to set up (the last
one in the department is barely running a year later) and not supported at
the University (one consultant).
It seems that Linux would be a great solution since but there are
two issues involves.
(1) The workstation is a 43P/260 which uses a IBM PPC 420
(Power3/200). I don't even know where this lies on the AIM roadmap or if
it's possible to run YDL on this processor (I think an IBM press release
said that it was "forthcoming", but the FAQ doesn't list this model at all).
(2) The one thing we need is Fortran 90. gcc-2.9.5 includes an f77
compiler, but not f90. I was wondering what are our options (commercial or
noncommercial) for f90 compilers in PPC linux.
The thought of having a 80 lb AIX paperweight on a students desk is
unappealing. :-)
Another minor issue is that I have a G4/400 non-school related
personal use and consulting and was wondering if I install YDL on an
external drive, how difficult it would be (impractical?) to use the volume
on the RS-6000 with YDL.
<http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/hardware/workstations/43p_260.html>
<http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/linux/>
Thanks for your consideration,
terry
chay@uiuc.edu mac:<http://guava.physics.uiuc.edu/~tychay/mac/eCard.sit.bin>
terrence y chay
homepage:<http://guava.physics.uiuc.edu/~tychay/homepage/>
department of physics pgp key:<http://guava.physics.uiuc.edu/~tychay/pgp/>
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