On Sep 8, 4:33 pm, Hamptonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It turns out that I also have access to a linux-based supercomputer,
> (an IBM BladeCenter with about 300 quad-processor nodes), which should
> be faster than the Power4 system anyway.  So I will give up, for the
> moment, trying to install sage on AIX.

Ok, how far did you get?

>  I have installed sage-2.8.3.6
> on the BladeCenter successfully, with the following "make test"
> failures:
>
>         sage -t  devel/sage-main/sage/modular/modform/ambient_g1.py
>         sage -t  devel/sage-main/sage/modular/modform/
> eisenstein_submodule.py
>         sage -t  devel/sage-main/sage/modular/modform/submodule.py
>         sage -t  devel/sage-main/sage/rings/real_rqdf.pyx
> Total time for all tests: 2137.4 seconds
>
> Probably some of those have been fixed in 2.8.4.
>

Please do an "./sage -upgrade" and then rerun the testsuite. If any of
those persist we should fix them. There was a last minute 32 bit only
regression at the very end of 2.8.4. It was so late that William
respun the tarball ;)

> Now I'll have to learn more about DSage; I am not sure how to exploit
> all those processors the way I usually code.
>
> Cheers,
> Marshall
>

Cheers,

Michael


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