[Bioclusters] Opteron Perl64 segfault issues

Joe Landman bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
12 Aug 2003 13:05:16 -0400


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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