On 10 Nov 2003, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> I have Poplog running on HP 712 under HP-UX 9.05.
Am I right in thinking that's a machine using the HPPA architecture?
> I have cross-compiled
> it on i386 Linux and assembled and linked on HP-UX. If anybody is interested
> I can provide a binary -- I hope it should work also on newer versions of
> HP-UX. The old OS-es are not very interesting but most of the CPU-s is
> still widely used. IMHO getting Poplog running on old OS may first step
> in porting to newer OS on the same CPU.
That's amazing.
If you can create either a tar file for the whole system and either mail
it to me or tell me where I can download it, I'll make it available at
the free poplog Web site. It can then be advertised via HP news groups/
mailing lists, in case anyone is interested.
An alternative would be to provide me with just the contents of the
$popsys directory. I'll then try to extract the relevant stuff for the
rest of the tree from this directory
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/src/master/S.hp9000_700/
and build a package.
At some later stage I could try to find out whether it runs on our
campus 'high performance computing service' which consists of a cluster
of 6 dual-processor HP J6700 workstations running at 750 Mhz under
HP-UX. ( http://www.capps-help.bham.ac.uk/ ) Until now I thought there
was no hope of ever getting poplog running on that in the near future.
(I wonder whether such a system is a waste of money when one can get far
more compute power for the same cost using clustered PCs ?)
Must sleep now.
Thanks.
Aaron
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