On 04/06/2011 10:15 PM, Jon Forrest wrote: > On 4/6/2011 5:39 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > >> shrug. does anyone have serious experience with real apps on manycore >> machines? (I'm familiar with SGI boxes, where 80 is fairly ho-hum, >> but they're substantially more exotic/rare/expensive.) > > I have a couple 48-core 1U boxes. They can build > gcc and other large packages very quickly.
But are the makes definitely running in parallel to take advantage of the multiple cores? I haven't built gcc, so don't know if it uses make's -j option to do parallel builds. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
