Jeff Schwab
11/17/2006 3:22:00 PM
Jeffrey Schwab wrote:
> Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:
>> On 11/15/06, Jeffrey Schwab <jeff@schwabcenter.com> wrote:
>>> Chad Brewbaker wrote:
>>> > I am trying to get mpi-ruby-0.4 working on a Bluegene-L system. I
>>> > compiled ruby-1.8.4 with --enable-shared. make test seemed ok
>>> except it
>>> > bombed on the SOAP library.
>>>
>>> On "a" BlueGene/L? How many of them do you think there are?
>>>
>>
>> The TOP500 lists 28, so at least that many.
>
> No, those aren't BlueGene/L's, they're other BlueGenes. The BlueGene/L
> is by definition the one built for Lawrence Livermore. It's the fastest
> supercomputer in the world. To be using BlueGene/L, you either have to
> be working at LLNL or in the IBM research division.
My failure to understand: Other BlueGenes based on the L architecture
are said by TOP500 to be in the BlueGene/L system family, so are called
BlueGene/Ls in the vernacular. Sorry for not getting it earlier.