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Re:Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM by detaro on Monday March 21, 2022 @06:01PM (#30760284)
IB always seemed like the kind of thing where you loose out a lot of comfort if you go with "old hardware sometimes found cheaply" and thus don't have vendor support, have to dig out drivers and tools from random sources, ...
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Re:Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM by gnufx on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @10:57AM (#30766862)
Obviously if you don't have driver support for the kernel you run, you can't use old stuff if you want to, but we had SDR IB running quite a long time without support. I don't have happy experience of HPC vendor support anyway, and unfortunately IB is now a Mellanox monoculture.
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Re:Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM by Melatonic on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @04:17PM (#30770948)
Probably was also difficult because I had no experience working with it, no support, and there is not nearly as many online forum posts and articles written about common issues.
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