CAELinux-X64
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17 years 7 months ago #1366
by B Douglas Hilton
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Hi all. I tried out CAELinux a few months ago and was sufficiently impressed to install it onto my HDD.
I'm a long time linux veteran, and am currently running Gentoo-amd64 on my Athlon64-X2 machine. I have tried to build Code_Aster from source, but it has defied my efforts on the 64bit system.
I would love to see a 64-bit SMP version of CAELinux available. Would it be possible to see a beta build someday?
Currently I use Autodesk Inventor 2008, TurboCAD Professional 14.1, and ALGOR 20.3 for production work, but I'm certainly interested in using CAELinux more in the future as it matures.
I'd be willing to help build 64bit binaries and do some development work if you need some devs for that. My Gentoo system has a very robust 64bit GNU compiler toolchain installed and I'm a reasonably proficient developer, for an engineer.
I'm a long time linux veteran, and am currently running Gentoo-amd64 on my Athlon64-X2 machine. I have tried to build Code_Aster from source, but it has defied my efforts on the 64bit system.
I would love to see a 64-bit SMP version of CAELinux available. Would it be possible to see a beta build someday?
Currently I use Autodesk Inventor 2008, TurboCAD Professional 14.1, and ALGOR 20.3 for production work, but I'm certainly interested in using CAELinux more in the future as it matures.
I'd be willing to help build 64bit binaries and do some development work if you need some devs for that. My Gentoo system has a very robust 64bit GNU compiler toolchain installed and I'm a reasonably proficient developer, for an engineer.
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17 years 2 weeks ago #1875
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Replied by Jason Nicholson on topic Re:CAELinux-X64
While the current CAELinux is amazing in its own right, I agree that a 64 bit CAElinux must be developed. Most large complex problems nowadays need the resources of a 64bit system. While I am not a programmer, I still want to help in its development anyway I can (documentation, tutorials, etc). I am excited to see where CAElinux goes!
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16 years 8 months ago #2218
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Replied by Peter Halverson on topic Re:CAELinux-X64
If I remember correctly PCLinuxos is only a 32 bit OS.
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16 years 8 months ago #2219
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Replied by JMB on topic Re:CAELinux-X64
bdouglas wrote:
I have been able to compile Code-Aster 64bit under Ubuntu 64bit. Visit the Code-Aster Install forums and the Code-Aster Wiki pages for help. But Salome on a 64bit has still not been done. Which is possibly why a CAELinux 64bit has not been packaged. There is mention by J.J. Ramsey of running it in Ubuntu 8.04 64bit. (Recently, I have been able to install and successfully run Salome 3.2.9 in Ubuntu Hardy 64bit as well)
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JMB<br /><br />Post edited by: JMB, at: 2008/09/29 19:57
Hi all.
I have tried to build Code_Aster from source, but it has defied my efforts on the 64bit system.
I would love to see a 64-bit SMP version of CAELinux available. Would it be possible to see a beta build someday?
I'd be willing to help build 64bit binaries and do some development work if you need some devs for that. My Gentoo system has a very robust 64bit GNU compiler toolchain installed and I'm a reasonably proficient developer, for an engineer.
I have been able to compile Code-Aster 64bit under Ubuntu 64bit. Visit the Code-Aster Install forums and the Code-Aster Wiki pages for help. But Salome on a 64bit has still not been done. Which is possibly why a CAELinux 64bit has not been packaged. There is mention by J.J. Ramsey of running it in Ubuntu 8.04 64bit. (Recently, I have been able to install and successfully run Salome 3.2.9 in Ubuntu Hardy 64bit as well)
Regards
JMB<br /><br />Post edited by: JMB, at: 2008/09/29 19:57
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16 years 7 months ago #2223
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Replied by tybeede on topic Re:CAELinux-X64
CAE linux needs 64 bit support. My CAD system UGS NX will only run under 64 bit linux so I'm hoping for 64 bit version. However, I think the developer of CAE Linux is taking a 6 month break to for work. Also, the PCLinuxOS is a nice software package but it doesn't have the type of support that Ubuntu and Suse have behind them and that means there isn't a 64 bit version right now. Maybe there should be a CAE Linux disto fork to bring the functionality to Ubuntu? Maybe some sort of Ubuntu64/CAE Linux combination?
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16 years 7 months ago #2224
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Replied by Joël Cugnoni on topic Re:CAELinux-X64
Hi everyone,
It is very interesting to have your feedback on 64bit systems. I was just asking myself a couple of months ago if it would be the right time to switch CAElinux to 64bit as it seems that more and more PC are compatible.. and 4gb RAM (or more) is now "cheap" and really usefull for real scale problems. It seems that I have the answer now: the future CAELinux will most probably be 64bit... and based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
I don't have enought time now to build a fully qualified distribution, but I have already started my investigations and tests. I have built a "test" version of a remastered Ubuntu 8.04 DVD with Aster 64 (two version: one compiled with intel compilers and the other with gcc/gfortran, an MPI version is also planned.. ) + Salome-Meca-2008 32bit. Based on what I have experienced after 2 months of various use, it appears to be a very stable platform (except for some 3D drivers in liveDVD mode.. "as usual" I would say).
It also offers a nice base to build a really low cost cluster (=no licences, quad core cpu are now quite cheap!!).
By the way, I would like to include a small "cluster" setup tool to configure a basic cluster based on ethernet, it should at least:
1) create and mount a NFS share on all machines,
2) generate ssh rsa keys, known host keys and propagate the configuration on each node
If you know some scripts or tool that already does this in Ubuntu, it would really help me.
Also if someone has a script or can tell me how to configure the system to boot other nodes via PXE, it would be great too (like the Quantian distro...).
As I am quite busy until february, I don't think that the next release will be available before march 2009 but at least now you know in which direction it will evolve!!
Joël Cugnoni
It is very interesting to have your feedback on 64bit systems. I was just asking myself a couple of months ago if it would be the right time to switch CAElinux to 64bit as it seems that more and more PC are compatible.. and 4gb RAM (or more) is now "cheap" and really usefull for real scale problems. It seems that I have the answer now: the future CAELinux will most probably be 64bit... and based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
I don't have enought time now to build a fully qualified distribution, but I have already started my investigations and tests. I have built a "test" version of a remastered Ubuntu 8.04 DVD with Aster 64 (two version: one compiled with intel compilers and the other with gcc/gfortran, an MPI version is also planned.. ) + Salome-Meca-2008 32bit. Based on what I have experienced after 2 months of various use, it appears to be a very stable platform (except for some 3D drivers in liveDVD mode.. "as usual" I would say).
It also offers a nice base to build a really low cost cluster (=no licences, quad core cpu are now quite cheap!!).
By the way, I would like to include a small "cluster" setup tool to configure a basic cluster based on ethernet, it should at least:
1) create and mount a NFS share on all machines,
2) generate ssh rsa keys, known host keys and propagate the configuration on each node
If you know some scripts or tool that already does this in Ubuntu, it would really help me.
Also if someone has a script or can tell me how to configure the system to boot other nodes via PXE, it would be great too (like the Quantian distro...).
As I am quite busy until february, I don't think that the next release will be available before march 2009 but at least now you know in which direction it will evolve!!
Joël Cugnoni
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