[Beowulf] Opteron bug reported

[Erwan Velu]

Le mer 23/06/2004 à 16:53, Douglas Eadline, Cluster World Magazine a
écrit :
> I just put a story up on ClusterWorld.com about a bug that has been found
> in the Opteron. I also collected some links about the bug. It seems
> to manifest itself under rare circumstances.
If you own some Opterons with more than 4Gb of memory, the MTRR are
sometimes not well set. So you can't setup correcty some WC (Write
Combining Areas).

A simple script could workaround that by unsetting the "Write Back" ones
and adding some WC.

After that, performances are back, WC accesses are ok :)
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