Distribution list of the DEC Alpha User's Group.

Here's a summary of the response to my initial e-mail request for interest in running ATLAS code on the DEC AXP platform.

The Current Situation:

• Pavel Nevski has provided some advice on how to get started with the ATLAS code by using ATLSIM. Pavel suggests . . .
• After three monthes of rather intense debugging Gilbert Poulard, Sasha Vanyashin, and myself have the latest version, 96_7, of DICE and ATRECON running on alpha's with OSF V3.2C (I'm not sure of the compatibility with other OSF versions).
  
• Here are complete, easy, step-by-step instructions for anyone to install and run/debug the latest code: ATLAS Software installation instructions
  Please send me any corrections to this document which you discover!
  
• Sasha Vanyashin - our Official ATLAS DEC Unix Code Librarian - has a version of ATLSIM dated 3-June-1996 available from his web page.
  
• Fawzi Fares, at Melbourne, has two versions of SLUG/DICE/ATRECON: 94_12 and 95_3. He's been using the the 95_3 version (the Technical Proposal version) extensively and can supply a tar file of his setup. Fawzi's installation guide
  • Keep in mind that these versions of the code are of the `old Dice' flavor without the new features of the AGE compiler (etc).
• David Munday, at Cambridge, and Jim Loken, at Oxford, also have the 95_3 code running and use it to study the tracker pattern recognition code (iPatRec).

ATLAS AXP CPU Power:

I asked for some details on people's systems. Summarizing the answers gives a lower limit on the AXP CPU power at ATLAS disposal:

• DEC AXP 3000/300 - 17 Machines
• DEC AXP 3000/400 - 16 Machines
• DEC AXP 3000/500 - 1 Machine
• DEC AXP 3000/600 - 1 Machine
• DEC AXP 3000/700 - 4 Machines
• DEC AXP 2000 4/200 - 4 Machines with 4 CPUs
• DEC AXP 2000 4/250 - 4 Machines with from 2 to 4 CPUs
• DEC AXP 2100 4/200 - 6 Machines with from 2 to 4 CPUs
• DEC AXP 8400 5/300 - 2 machines with 6 processors, scads of memory...

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