On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:29:36AM +0000, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2014, at 6:13 AM, Gilles Gouaillardet
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > it is possible to use qemu in order to emulate unavailable hardware.
> > for what it's worth, i am now running a ppc64 qemu emulated virtual
> > machine on an x86_64 workstation.
> > this is pretty slow (2 hours for configure and even more for make) but
> > enough to make simple tests/debugging.
>
>
> Fair point. I have a (very) dim recollection of someone raising the same
> point the last time we talked about heterogeneity.
>
> If someone would volunteer to do this, and run MTT in this setup on a
> regular, preferably automated, schedule (something even as low as once a week
> would probably be fine), that would probably change the equation.
I have access to ppc64 machines (PPC970MP and PowerXCell) on which I
could set up MTT.
Adrian
