Re: Linux on IBM 9076 nodes

On Jan 10, 2004, at 01:37, Anton Blanchard wrote:

Hi,

quoted

Our lab has recently acquired a 48-node IBM SP configuration based on
4-way "Winterhawk-II" Power3-2 wide nodes with 8 GB memory. I see on
the
Linuxppc site (boxes) that Linux is known to work on 9076-SP nodes
(ours). How difficult is the port? IBM does not support Linux on the
9076 but does on the newer Power4 pSeries units.

We've booted linux on winterhawks in the past, there was one weird
problem where we allocated memory for RTAS too high but that should be
fixed.

As pointed out we have no support for the switch unfortunately.

One of our build machines here is a nighthawk (16 way 9076) and it
works
nicely in case anyone has a cluster of these lying around :)

unfortunately, IBM wanted ours back when it was traded in for 6 32way
p690's.... we had 8 16cpu nodes ;-)

Anton

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