Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:06:01 -0500 From: "Thomas M. Hermann" <tmh.public@gmail.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Linuxolator on AMD64 Guidance Message-ID: <46003EA9.6060305@gmail.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020306080105090000020205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings, Is the goal of current linuxolator development to update support to 2.6.16 to be 64bit on amd64 or just update to 2.6.16 and run 32bit apps on amd64 as is done now? I've subscribed to freebsd-emulation & freebsd-amd64, searched through archives of said groups, looked through the FreeBSD developers wiki, and googled. There is only sys/amd64/linux32 in the cvs repository. I'm a little confused. My interest stems from the fact that I rely on the linuxolator to run engineering applications which are only available on Linux. I've successfully run the parallel version of LS-DYNA, a FEM pre-processor called Hypermesh, MSC.Patran, MSC.Nastran and ANSYS. I was most amazed by the LS-DYNA run, both CPUs were pegged for the entire run. All of these applications were, obviously, the IA32 versions and performed beyond my expectations. But, my next computer will be 64bit and I'm interested in running the 64bit versions of these applications, primarily due to the memory requirements of the analysis. In the next 6-12 months, I'm going to be purchasing a new workstation. At a minimum, I will need to run ANSYS on the workstation. I have no interest in using Linux or Windows as my primary OS. So my options in order of preference are: 1) Dual-core Opteron+FreeBSD/amd64+linuxolator/amd64+ANSYS-AMDx64 2) Mac Pro+VMware-Fusion+RHEL+ANSYS-AMDx64 3) Dual-core Opteron+FreeBSD/amd64+linuxolator/i386+ANSYS-IA32 Except that I don't know that option 1 is truly an option or will be any time soon. Option 3 is least preferable, but would be acceptable if there was the potential of moving to 64bit within the next 12-18 months. I went to the ANSYS website today and requested native support for FreeBSD and Mac, but I'm not holding my breath. If anyone can provide any guidance, it would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Tom -- === Thomas M. Hermann === --------------020306080105090000020205--
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