hello all an ARMv8 (64bits) simulator is available from ARM, Linaro was ported over it recently It runs a 3.6.0 linux, i did not try to use a Lustre supported kernel on it (this will simplify the port) If it does not work, first you will have to port Lustre client on a 3.6 kernel
Bye JC On 11/01/2012 07:52 AM, Gabriele Paciucci wrote: > Hi Andreas, > many vendors are going to put in the market ARM+GPU based cluster. Yes, > ARM is a 32bit system, with now a 1 Gbit connection normally, but in few > watt could have a performance of 300 GFlops... so I think in the near > future could be a player in the HPC market. > > I'm interested yust for the patchless cluster... > > thanks > > On 10/31/2012 04:55 PM, Dilger, Andreas wrote: >> On 2012-10-31, at 8:27, Gabriele Paciucci <[email protected]> wrote: >>> has anyone tried to compile the lustre patchless client on a debian linux >>> for arm architecture? Could be possible to do? >> Gabriel, >> Many years ago, someone was working on a MIPS port for Lustre and I believe >> they got it working, but I don't think the patches ever landed. You could >> make a quick search in bugzilla to see what changes they made, and update >> this for Arm as well. >> >> Are you looking for client or server support? My understanding is that Arm >> is only 32-bit today. While we regularly build for 32-bit kernels, this is >> not tested automatically on master anymore so it is possible that there have >> been regressions in this area. >> >> If be happy to hear your experiences in this area, and it would be a good >> time to land any patches needed to make Arm builds working. >> >> Cheers, Andreas > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
