From: Jeffrey Schwab <jeff@...>
Date: 2006-11-18T00:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem linking on a Bluegene-L

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.