[Bioclusters] Opteron Perl64 segfault issues

Nathan Siemers bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:11:15 -0400


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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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