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| | 1 | Fernando asked the 'makers' of AIPS about issues in debian: |
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| | 3 | Subject: Re: [daip] aips on debian |
| | 4 | Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:59:03 -0700 |
| | 5 | From: Eric Greisen <egreisen@nrao.edu> |
| | 6 | To: Fernando Camilo <fernando@astro.columbia.edu> |
| | 7 | CC: daip@nrao.edu |
| | 8 | References: <43B2C16B.7010202@astro.columbia.edu> |
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| | 10 | Fernando Camilo writes: |
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| | 12 | > Could you please let me know whether there are any known issues for AIPS |
| | 13 | > running under Linux Debian 3.1 (sarge)? We are building a new Linux-based |
| | 14 | > computing network here at the Columbia Astrophysics Lab and want to make |
| | 15 | > sure that the key packages will work under our proposed operating system. |
| | 16 | > |
| | 17 | So far as I know there are no issues. But I do not know if it has |
| | 18 | been tested properly either. We offer AIPS in both source-code and |
| | 19 | binary versions. The former mostly has issues with compilers, where |
| | 20 | some versions of GNU for example simply make many mistakes in |
| | 21 | optimization. The latter is build with the Intel compiler on a RedHat |
| | 22 | 9 host. It is possible that some issues might arise from OS |
| | 23 | incompatibilities. In fact, we are seeing serious degradation of AIPS |
| | 24 | TV performance on those machines that have been "upgraded" to RedHat |
| | 25 | Enterprise. Whether Enterprise just does not like standard sockets |
| | 26 | especially Inet loopback sockets or whether load modules build with an |
| | 27 | Enterprise system would work better, we do not yet know. |
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| | 29 | Eric Greisen |
