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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:26:09PM -0800, Keith Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:59:17PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:46:46PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > > IIRC numconvert passed on the crays tested by Keith Thompson.
> > > What's the difference between them and the Boeing Cray?
> >
> > Different FPU: see the warnings about incompatible fp cflags
> > in Keith's log.
>
> The Boeing machine is a C90, right? That's an older machine than
> our T90. (SDSC installed a C90 in 1993; it was gone by the time I
> started working there in 1999.)
>
> The T90 can have either Cray or IEEE floating-point. Ours is IEEE.
> I think the C90 can only have Cray floating-point. If the numconvert
Correct.
> test implicitly assumes IEEE (a valid assumption on the vast majority
> of systems these days), I'm not too surprised that it failed.
>
> BTW, our T90 is being decommissioned at the end of this month.
> (I'll miss the waterfall.)
I miss the round coach/sofa of XMPs.
> --
> Keith Thompson, San Diego Supercomputer Center kst@sdsc.edu
> <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst/> Office: 858-822-0853 Fax: 858-822-5407
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