Subject: Re: Yellow Dog on RS-6000/43P
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Sun Sep 19 1999 - 17:00:22 MDT
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, terry chay wrote:
> 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).
I believe this is being worked on.. so YDL will eventually work on it.
(not sure when)
>
> (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.
Try asking commercial companies for a YDL port of their f90 compilers. I'm
not aware of any noncommercial ones available.
>
> 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.
Much easier to just install YDL on the RS/6k, if it were to work on that
system.
> <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/>
> university of illinois, urbana-champaign icq:<http://wwp.icq.com/16069322>
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
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