On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 13:48 +0200, Michel Schanen wrote: > > > 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. > Did you know theres a SPARC64 packages port at Debian-ports?
http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=sparc64&suite=sid > Oh and don't forget to recompile your kernel with 64 CPU support. > Otherwise you will be stuck with 32 or something. And they even did build a 64 bit kernel as well. A how-to bootstrapping it for SPARC64 can be found in this wiki. http://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64 Thanks, Frans van Berckel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
