That's great news, Joe. Has this build passed any regression tests, i.e. rigorous comparison to output from blastall on other architectures? nathan Joe Landman wrote: >Hi Nathan: > > I do have a full build of the binaries for Opteron I can put up >later. For now, feel free to grab >http://scalableinformatics.com/downloads/blastall.gz which is the x86-64 >binary I used from my tests. > > I will put a note out when I get the full package together tonight. > >Joe > >On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 11:45, Nathan Siemers wrote: > > >>Thanks to All for your help in testing Perl's robustness in 32 and 64 >>bit modes on different architectures. So far all my tests on platforms >>other than opteron are running perfectly (IA32, irix-64). >> >>Tentative diagnosis is a (wonderfully) intermittent memory error on the >>opteron box in question. >> >> >>Nathan >> >>ps. Any successful builds of NCBI toolkit out there? We can build it >>but do not >>currently trust the output data (compared to other archs). -n >> >> >> >>Joseph Landman wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 08:51, Nathan O. Siemers wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>memtest86 does not compile on the opteron, giving an error during an as >>>>assembly. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>I took the liberty again of moving a copy of the memtest .iso image to >>>my download site. You can pull it from >>>http://scalableinformatics.com/downloads/memtest86-3.0.iso . Burn it to >>>a CD in the usual way, then boot from CD. Alternatively you can use the >>>floppy version, though I did not compile that. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org >>https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >> >>