Linux Support

Compaq Alpha Linux Red Hat

The software and hardware requirements for running TotalView 5.0.0-1 on Linux Alpha systems are as follows:

Software Requirements

• Red Hat 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, or 7.1
   
• Release X11R4, X11R5, or X11R6 of the X Window System

Hardware Requirements

• Any Alpha processor-based platform
   
• 368MB of disk space
   
• 64MB of physical memory and 100MB of swap space (for each TotalView session and for each 100,000-line program)

Additional Requirements

Here are the compilers and environments supported by TotalView 5.0.0-1 on a Compaq Alpha Linux Red Hat system:

Compiler or Environment	Product
C compiler	Compaq C for Linux Alpha 6.2 GCC gcc EGCS 2.91.66 (bundled with Red Hat 6.0, 6.1, 6.2) and 2.96 (bundled with Red Hat 7.1) GCC gcc EGCS 2.95.2 GCC gcc 2.96 (bundled with Red Hat 7.1)
C++ compiler	GCC g++ EGCS 2.91.66 (bundled with Red Hat 6.0, 6.1, 6.2) GCC g++ EGCS 2.95.2 GCC g++ 2.96 (bundled with Red Hat 7.1)
FORTRAN 77 compiler	Compaq Fortran for Linux Alpha (cfal) 1.1 GCC g77 EGCS 2.91.66 (bundled with Red Hat 6.0, 6.1, 6.2) GCC g77 EGCS 2.95.2 See Restrictions below for information on using these GNU compilers) GCC g77 2.96 (bundled with Red Hat 7.1)
Fortran 90 compiler	Compaq Fortran for Linux Alpha (cfal) 1.1
MPICH	Versions 1.1.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.1 MPICH is available from: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich. MPICH patches are available from: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/buglist-tbl.html
ORNL PVM	Version 3.4.1 See the PVM home page at http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html for more information on PVM

Restrictions

• Debugging threaded programs (pthreads) that call exec() is not yet supported.
   
• The Visualizer is not available. You can still, however, export data using the $visualize command.
   
• For additional information, see Linux Problems within the TotalView Release Notes.