On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 23:23 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, Dan Stromberg wrote:
We're currently running AIX 5.1. IBM is telling us that AIX 5.3 will never support our SP2 switch, so our upgrade path seems to have disappeared shortly after purchasing the equipment.
I dont know if the kernel will boot on the SP2 switch, did you already try it?
No, we haven't tried it. The only pSeries boxes I have access to are in fulltime production mode. I'd've guessed that SuSe would boot, but would ignore the SP2 switch. Is there some reason why the kernel shouldn't boot on a system with an SP2 switch?
How's the SMP support on pSeries? Is it up to handling 32 CPU's well yet?
It appers to work well with > 32 cpus in SLES9.
Cool. :)
One of the reasons the guy with the grant money for this compute cluster wanted AIX, was for the AIX compilers - so I need to ask: Will SuSe for pSeries be able to use xlc/xlC/xlf/xlf90/xlf95 and such?
There are xlc products available, from IBM.
Great.