FW: ATTN: Tom Yoksas - McIDAS-X and HPUX-11.0

Tom,

  Apparently, there was a problem with getting mail to external (outside
this building) addresses on Friday, when I sent this to you.  I think it is
working now.  Let's try again.

Brice
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Biggerstaff, Brice  
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:40 AM
> To:   'address@hidden'
> Cc:   Batson, Bryan; Glenn, Robert; Hoeth, Brian
> Subject:      ATTN: Tom Yoksas - McIDAS-X and HPUX-11.0
> 
> Tom,
> 
>   Sorry that I missed you on the phone yesterday.  I might have at least
> given you an excuse to get out of a meeting briefly!
> 
>   We have some questions about the running of McIDAS-X on HPUX 11.0.
> According to the SSEC web site and communications with Dee, we understand
> that the only version of HPUX 11.0 that they specify with McIDAS-X is the
> 32-bit version.  We also hear that most of their recommendation comes from
> your experiences, since they have very little HPUX support at this time.
> Can you fill us in on what your experiences with 11.0 have been?  We have
> been marching along trying to get approval to replace our old HP boxes
> with new ones based, in part, on the 'sunset' of HPUX 10.20 and the fact
> that the older boxes we have in production now cannot run HPUX 11.0.
> However, something has come up with a new HP J5600 box that we are
> readying for production, that has given us some concern.  What we have
> found out is that the newer HP cpu's cannot install HPUX 11.0 in the
> 32-bit version, only in the 64-bit.  You can see where this puts us.  Bob
> Glenn, the prime sysadmin on the MIDDS, has found documentation indicating
> that 32-bit applications will run on the 64-bit system and even that it is
> possible to compile 32-bit versions of applications on a 64-bit O/S with
> the appropriate compiler options.  None of this, however, gives us warm
> fuzzies, since we do not, as yet, have any experience with these
> conditions.
> 
>   We are proceeding to load HPUX 11.0,the 64-bit version, so that we can
> test various combinations of compilations and loads, but we would be very
> grateful (might even get Brian Hoeth to stand for a beverage for you in
> Madison next week) for any information that you have on this.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Brice
> 
> Brice Biggerstaff
> Lockheed-Martin Engineering
> Houston, TX 77058
> (281) 218-2239  (work)
> (713) 764-2601  (pager)
> address@hidden
> 
> 
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