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ZOOM Supported Platforms

The list of mandated platforms for ZOOM to support originated in a list determined by the Run II Computing Steering Committee, and has evolved based on approved requests from the Run II experiments.

Also, needs of non-RunII FNAL experiments and of ZOOM developers have been taken into consideration.

The ZOOM support group builds base releases and all validation executables (or all tbins in cases where formal validation executables are not present) on several platforms as listed below.

(A platform is taken to mean the combination of hardware, operating system, compiler, and compiler options.) All ZOOM products listed in the ZOOM pages or later should work on all these supported platforms.

November 4, 2002

Current supported platforms:

KAI compiler (KCC 4.0f) under IRIX (6.5) CDF options
KAI compiler (KCC 4.0f) under IRIX (6.5) D0 options
KAI compiler (KCC 4.0f) under Linux (7.1) CDF options
KAI compiler (KCC 4.0f) under Linux (7.1) D0 options
GNU compiler (gcc 3.1) under Linux (7.1) default options
GNU compiler (gcc 3.1) under Linux (7.1) CDF options
GNU compiler (gcc 3.1) under Linux (7.1) D0 options
GNU compiler (gcc 3.1) under IRIX (6.5) CDF options
GNU compiler (gcc 3.1) under IRIX (6.5) D0 options
GNU compiler (gcc 3.1) under IRIX (6.5) default options
KAI compiler (KCC 4.0f) under IRIX (6.5) default options
KAI compiler (KCC 4.0f) under Linux (7.1) default options
EGCS compiler (gcc 2.95.2) under Linux (7.1) default options
EGCS compiler (gcc 2.95.2) under IRIX (6.5) default options

CDF options are defined as no exceptions, no threads, not optimized.
D0 options are defined as exceptions, threads, not optimized.
default options are defined as exceptions, no threads, not optimized.

Caveats Concerning Platforms

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Evolution of This List

Plans for New Platforms

The latest gcc release is at least 3.3. It is likely that by the time experiments are depending on gcc the version will be at least 3.3 instead of 3.1.
It is possble that one or two platforms differing only in the selection of optimization levels will be requested (and supported) in the future.

Obsolescence Warnings

gcc 2.95 is likely to leave the list soon. Currently, some useful applications involving MCFAST rely on 2.95; when it is available with a later gcc, we intend to eliminate builds of ZOOM under 2.95.

Previous Lists of Supported Platforms

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