----- Original Message ----- | On Saturday, June 05, 2010 03:19:40 PM Karanbir Singh wrote: | > On 06/05/2010 07:18 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > > Any follow up to this? Are the builds still running? Just | > > wanting to know what needs to be done. :) | > > | > | > I was looking at this a short while back, the builds are running. I | > think an irc catchup is called for. I'm going to propose Wed 9th at | > 2100 | > UTC n #centos-devel | | | Ok, bringing up a two-year-old thread.... | | We finally got the electrical up (Mitsubishi 9900B 500KVA UPS woo | hoo....) in our research building's data center, and have a 20 CPU | Altix 3700 up, running, and available to do this. I know about and | am pulling the 'c5-wip' tree Karanbir built a while back, and have | allocated 1.4TB of disk on our Clariions here to the effort. Now, I | know the last time this was brought up it didn't go very far; but | I'm still interested in doing this, even if for private use here on | our three Altix systems. | | James, did you get very far? Karanbir, what would be the chances of | a 'refresh' of the ia64 c5-wip tree to 5.8? | | I can give more details via private e-mail. We gave up. Nobody was using our IA64 machines because the x86_64 machines were so much faster for 90% of our workloads. It just wasn't worth the effort and most of the software that we used that was commercial didn't work on IA64 either. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life but as by the obstacles they have overcome. - Booker T. Washington