Re: [suse-ppc] Switching p655's and a p690 to SuSe?

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?

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.

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.