[daip] aips software linux mips compatibility

[Eric Greisen]

Wes Young wrote:
> Cool.  As long as you have a fortran and C compiler you should be able  
> to build from source.
> 
> wes
> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu
> 
> 
> On Apr 11, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Kurtis Miller wrote:
> 
>> Hi, I am an amateur radio astronomer interested in using your AIPS  
>> Classic software for my earth-rotation (drift scan at first)  
>> interferometer and VLBI projects.
>>
>> However, I have a couple questions:
>>
>> Will AIPS Classic run on Linux MIPS? And how much memory is  
>> _required_ to run it (the system I was planning on using has 32MB  
>> RAM and 1GB of swap, though of course I'd rather not have to use  
>> swap ;) )? I have a Playstation 2 Linux system I was planning to run  
>> it on along with my data collection, and later VLBI correlator (all  
>> this may be a little much for my poor little PS2, but at the moment  
>> I'll have to make do if i can).

I suspect that the 32 Mbytes of RAM may be a serious limitation.  AIPS 
does do dynamic memory allocation of the pseduo array processor and you 
can limit how much it will try for (SETMAXAP) but that is more than 
order of magnitude less than we are used to these days (~ 1 Gbyte is 
normal).

Eric Greisen