From landman@dearborn.sgi.com Thu Oct 31 18:17:54 1996 Received: from deliverator.sgi.com for landman@dearborn.sgi.com by www.ccl.net (8.8.2/950822.1) id RAA17870; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:26:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from aspire.dearborn.sgi.com by deliverator.sgi.com via ESMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/951211.SGI.AUTO) id OAA08199; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:26:09 -0800 Received: from phonon.dearborn.sgi.com by aspire.dearborn.sgi.com via ESMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) id RAA01289; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:26:08 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phonon.dearborn.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id OAA01114; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:01:41 -0800 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:01:41 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Landman To: "Wendy W. Richardson" cc: CHEMISTRY@www.ccl.net Subject: Re: CCL:IRIX 6.2 and R10000 In-Reply-To: <199610291425.IAA06217@ddix7.monsanto.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Wendy: Yes my modeling programs work. The issue is a coff type binary or an elf type binary. Coff binaries are no longer supported as of 6.2. You can check to see if they are coff or elf by typing file name_of _executable This will report the binary type. Moreover, with 6.2, you have access to the better MIPSpro compilers which generate much better code than the older compilers. The R10k desktop ran my molecular dynamics code at 20 seconds per time step as compared to an older R8k desktop at 50 seconds per time step. The R10k is an extremely fast MD platform from my perspective. Joe On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Wendy W. Richardson wrote: -> -> -> ->We are about to upgrade one of our workstations to an R10000 processor, ->with the corresponding upgrade to IRIX 6.2. The guy from SGI said the ->6.2 release was fairly stable, and the systems related stuff should all ->work fine, but we could have some problems with applications software ->(he is not familiar with modeling software). -> ->Has anyone else done this? Does your modeling software still work? Is ->it faster? Were there any special things you had to do to get things ->to work? Will I need to get/create another set of executables? -> ->I am most concerned about: Sybyl, Daylight, Gaussian94, Macromodel, -> Catalyst, Spartan -> ->I will summarize any responses I receive... ->------------------------------------------------------------- -> ("`-/")_.-'"``-._ ->Wendy W. Richardson, Ph.D. (. . `) -._ )-;-,_() ->Sr. Research Investigator (v_,)' _ )`-.\ ``-' ->Searle _;- _,-_/ / ((,' ->4901 Searle Parkway ((,.-' ((,/ ->Skokie, IL 60077 wwrich@ddix7.monsanto.com -> -> ->--- ->Administrivia: This message is automatically appended by the mail exploder: ->CHEMISTRY@www.ccl.net: Everybody | CHEMISTRY-REQUEST@www.ccl.net: Coordinator ->MAILSERV@www.ccl.net: HELP CHEMISTRY or HELP SEARCH | Gopher: www.ccl.net 73 ->Anon. ftp: www.ccl.net | CHEMISTRY-SEARCH@www.ccl.net -- archive search -> Web: http://www.ccl.net/chemistry.html ->--- -> +-----------------------+----------------------------+ | Joe Landman | +1 810 848 4469 voice FH | | Systems Engineer | +1 313 441 2200 voice DH | | | +1 313 441 6341 fax DH | | Silicon Graphics Inc. | | | 24155 Drake Road, | landman@sgi.com | | Farmington MI 48335 | Mail stop DMR 2204 | +-----------------------+----------------------------+ http://reality.sgi.com/landman_dearborn/landman.html