Le 08/02/2013 13:26, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Brice Goglin, le Fri 08 Feb 2013 13:23:33 +0100, a écrit : >> Le 08/02/2013 12:52, Samuel Thibault a écrit : >>> svn-commit-mai...@open-mpi.org, le Fri 08 Feb 2013 12:02:18 +0100, a écrit : >>>> Everything is hardwired in the backend, all nodes are the same. >>> Would it be possible to check some file in /proc or /sys to identify the >>> machine, to make sure we are not lying? >> There's no such filesystems on BlueGene compute nodes. The CNK kernel >> redirects I/O call to the I/O node (which runs Linux). >> >> I can check that uname reports "CNK" and "BGQ" if you're afraid of >> people running hwloc/bgq on non-bgq machines. > My concern is rather than within a few years, new BGQ machines get built > with a differing architecture. Ideally we would find some > identifier or version which will for sure change when IBM changes the > architecture. >
If a new BlueGene is built, it won't be called Q again, they still have 23 letters to use :) The BlueGene program has stopped anyway, it was only L, P and Q. Brice
