So it sounds like we may have a test platform, which leaves the question of 
repair

George: can you give us some idea of what was broken and/or pointers on what 
needs to be done to repair it?


On Apr 25, 2014, at 4:34 AM, Adrian Reber <adr...@lisas.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:29:36AM +0000, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
>> On Apr 25, 2014, at 6:13 AM, Gilles Gouaillardet 
>> <gilles.gouaillar...@iferc.org> 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
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