## NAME

         sysdata - find basic hardware system data

## SYNOPSIS

         sysdata

## DESCRIPTION

         After the atlc package is built, a small benchmark is run as
         part  of  the testing procedure. This benchmark tries to get
         some information about the  hardware.  The  program  sysdata
         displays  the  same  hardware information that the benchmark
         will display, but runs in a fraction of  a  second,  whereas
         the  benchmark  can  take from 19 s (quad 1.4 GHz Itainium 2
         machine) to 14,906 s (for a very old 33.3  MHz  Cray  Y-MP).
         There are no options or arguments to sysdata

         The information  gathered  on  hardware  and  software  both
         developed  by the same company (i.e. Solaris on Suns, AIX on
         IBM RS/6000, IRIX on SGI, ... etc  etc)  is  generally  more
         informative  than  the free systems (Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
         FreeBSD) where it is usually impossible to get much hardware
         information.

## EXAMPLES

         Here are some examples of the use of sysdata on a number  of
         systems.  The  large number of examples is for my own use as
         much as anything, so I can keep track of the development  of
         sysdata  and  see  easily where it needs extending. Examples
         are presented for:

         1) Sun Ultra 80 running Solaris 9
         2) HP C3000 running HP-UX 11
         3) SGI Octane running IRIX 6.5.16
         4) IBM RS/6000 running AIX 5.2
         5) Dec Alpha 600a Personal Workstation running Tru64 5.1B
         6) Cray Y-MP running UNICOS 9
         7) Sun SPARCstation 20 running NetBSD 1.6
         8) Sun SPARCstation 20 running OpenBSD 3.2
         9) Sun SPARCstation 20 running Debian Linux
         10) Sun SPARCstation 20 running Solaris 2.5
         11) Generic PC with 350 MHz Pentium II running Redhat  Linux
         7.2

         Here's the output from sysdata on these 11 systems.

         e.g. 1 (Sun Ultra 80 running Solaris 9)
         Hardware provider:    Sun_Microsystems
         Hardware platform:    SUNW,Ultra-80
         Machine:              sun4u
         Sysname:              SunOS
         Release:              5.9
         Version:              Generic_112233-06
         Nodename:             sparrow
         #CPUs supported:      4
         #CPUs online:         4
         CPU type:             sparcv9
         FPU type:             sparcv9
         Speed:                450 MHz
         RAM:                  4096 Mb
         L1 data cache         unknown kB
         L1 instruction cache: unknown kB
         L2 cache:             unknown kB

         Here's an example on a HP 9000 series Visualize C3000 works-
         tation,  fitted with one 400 MHz PA-RISC 8500 CPU and 1.5 Gb
         of RAM

         e.g. 2 (HP 9000 series Visualize C3000)
         Hardware provider:    HP
         Hardware platform:    unknown
         Machine:              9000/785
         Sysname:              HP-UX
         Release:              B.11.00
         Version:              A
         Nodename:             robin
         #CPUs supported:      1
         #CPUs online:         1
         CPU type:             532
         FPU type:             1048577
         Speed:                400.0 MHz
         RAM:                  1536 Mb
         L1 data cache         unknown kb
         L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
         L2 cache:             unknown kb

         Here's another example this time on  an  SGI  Octane  R10000
         with  2  x  195  MHz  processors. Note the CPU and FPU types
         reported at not the R10000 and R10010 that are  reported  by
         SGI's  hinv.  sysdata  is  not  meant  to replace other more
         sophisticated ways of obtaining system information (such  as
         hinv  on  IRIX), but its data is useful to record for bench-
         marking purposes.

         e.g. 3 (SGI Octane R1000)
         Hardware provider:    SGI
         Hardware platform:    unknown
         Machine:              IP30
         Sysname:              IRIX64
         Release:              6.5
         Version:              04101931
         Nodename:             owl
         #CPUs supported:      unknown
         #CPUs online:         2
         CPU type:             2343
         FPU type:             2304
         Speed:                195 MHz
         RAM:                  1024 Mb
         L1 data cache         32 kB
         L1 instruction cache: 32 kB
         L2 cache:             1024 kB

         Here's an example using an IBM RS/6000 F50 with 4 x 332  MHz
         CPUs and 1 GB of RAM.

         e.g. 4 (IBM RS/6000 F50)
         Hardware provider:    IBM
         Hardware platform:    unknown
         Machine:              000245984C00
         Sysname:              AIX
         Release:              2
         Version:              5
         Nodename:             starling
         #CPUs supported:      unknown
         #CPUs online:         4
         CPU type:             unknown
         FPU type:             unknown
         Speed:                unknown MHz
         RAM:                  1024 Mb
         L1 data cache         unknown kB
         L1 instruction cache: unknown kB
         L2 cache:             unknown kB

         And here's an example from a single 599  MHz  processor  Dec
         Alpha 600a Personal Workstation running Tru64 5.1B

         e.g. 5 (Dec Alpha 600a Personal Workstation)
         Hardware provider:    unknown
         Hardware platform:    Digital_Personal_WorkStation_600au
         Machine:              alpha
         Sysname:              OSF1
         Release:              V5.1
         Version:              2650
         Nodename:             dobermann.localhost.ntlworld.co
         #CPUs supported:      1
         #CPUs online:         1
         CPU type:             EV5.6_(21164A)
         FPU type:             unknown
         Speed:                599 MHz
         RAM:                  1024 Mb
         L1 data cache         unknown kb
         L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
         L2 cache:             unknown kb

         Here's some data collected on a very old  Cray  Y-MP,  which
         was introduced in 1991.

         e.g 6 (Cray Y-MP running UNICOS)

         Hardware provider:    Cray
         Hardware platform:    Y-MP
         Machine:              CRAY_Y-MP
         Sysname:              sn5176
         Release:              9.0.2.2
         Version:              sin.0
         Nodename:             sn5176
         #CPUs supported:      unknown
         #CPUs online:         4
         CPU type:             unknown
         FPU type:             unknown
         Speed:                33.3 MHz
         RAM:                  unknown Mb
         L1 data cache         unknown kb
         L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
         L2 cache:             unknown kb

         That is all the examples of commercial hardware running  the
         operating systems made by the manufacturers of the hardware.
         The following are free UNIX versions.  In  these  cases  the
         data gathered is never as complete. In particular the amoumt
         of memory reported if often less than the real amount due to
         memory  taken  by  the  operating  system  (kernel etc). The
         number of processors the system can support is never  avail-
         able.

         Here's the first such non-commercial UNIX from a single pro-
         cessor Sun SPARCstation 20 running NetBSD 1.6.

         e.g. 7 (Sun SPARCstation 20 running NetBSD 1.6)
         Hardware provider:    unknown
         Hardware platform:    unknown
         Machine:              sparc
         Sysname:              NetBSD
         Release:              1.6
         Version:
         NetBSD_1.6_(GENERIC)_#0:_Mon_Sep__9_08:2sparc
         Nodename:             blackbird
         #CPUs supported:      unknown
         #CPUs online:         1
         CPU                                                    type:
         rg:/autobuild/sparc/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC
         FPU type:             unknown
         Speed:                unknown MHz
         RAM:                  255 Mb
         L1 data cache         unknown kb
         L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
         L2 cache:             unknown kb

         Here's data from a Sun SPARCstation 20 running OpenBSD  3.2.
         The  machine has 320 Mb of RAM, not 318 Mb as indicated. The
         number of processors the  system  supports  is  reported  as
         unknown,  but should the system have been running Solaris 9,
         as in the example 1 (sparrow), then this  information  would
         have  been determined, but it is not available under OpenBSD
         - or Solaris 2.5 for that matter.

         e.g. 8 (Sun SPARCstation 20 running OpenBSD 3.2)
         Hardware provider:    unknown
         Hardware platform:    unknown
         Machine:              sparc
         Sysname:              OpenBSD
         Release:              3.2
         Version:              GENERIC#36
         Nodename:             crow.crow.localdomain
         #CPUs supported:      unknown
         #CPUs online:         1
         CPU type:             unknown
         FPU type:             unknown
         Speed:                unknown MHz
         RAM:                  319 Mb
         L1 data cache         unknown kb
         L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
         L2 cache:             unknown kb
         The next machine is a Sun  SPARCstation  20  running  Debian
         Linux. The version of Debian is unknown, but clearly sysdata
         is unable to determine this.

         e.g. 9 (Sun SPARCstation 20 running Debian Linux)

         Hardware provider:    unknown
         Hardware platform:    unknown
         Machine:              sparc
         Sysname:              Linux
         Release:              2.2.20
         Version:              #1_Fri_Nov_16_15:48:02_EST_2001
         Nodename:             dove
         #CPUs supported:      unknown
         #CPUs online:         1
         CPU type:             unknown
         FPU type:             unknown
         Speed:                unknown MHz
         RAM:                  281 Mb
         L1 data cache         unknown kb
         L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
         L2 cache:             unknown kb

         Here's data from a Sun SPARCstation 20 running  Solaris  2.5
         (SunOS 5.5). The machine probably does have 352 Mb of RAM as
         reported. The number of processors the  system  supports  is
         reported as unknown, but should the system have been running
         Solaris 9, as in the example 1 (sparrow), then this informa-
         tion  would  have  been  determined, but it is not available
         under Solaris 2.5.

         e.g. 10 (Sun SPARCstation 20 Solaris 2.5)
         Hardware provider:    Sun_Microsystems
         Hardware platform:    SUNW,SPARCstation-20
         Machine:              sun4m
         Sysname:              SunOS
         Release:              5.5
         Version:              Generic
         Nodename:             bluetit
         #CPUs supported:      unknown
         #CPUs online:         2
         CPU type:             sparc
         FPU type:             sparc
         Speed:                125 MHz
         RAM:                  352 Mb
         L1 data cache         unknown kb
         L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
         L2 cache:             unknown kb

         Here's a standard PC, fitted with one processor

         e.g. 11 (350 MHz Pentium II PC running Redhat Linux)
         Hardware provider:    unknown
         Hardware platform:    unknown
         Machine:              i686
         Sysname:              Linux
         Release:              2.4.18-5
         Version:              #1_Mon_Jun_10_15:31:48_EDT_2002
         Nodename:             tiger
         #CPUs supported:      unknown
         #CPUs online:         1
         CPU type:             unknown
         FPU type:             unknown
         Speed:                unknown MHz
         RAM:                  123 Mb
         L1 data cache         unknown kb
         L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
         L2 cache:             unknown kb

## FILES

         sysdata does not read/write any files.

## SEE ALSO

         atlc(1)
         create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ(1)
         create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect(1)
         create_bmp_for_microstrip_coupler(1)
         create_bmp_for_rect_cen_in_rect(1)
         create_bmp_for_rect_cen_in_rect_coupler(1)
         create_bmp_for_rect_in_circ(1)
         create_bmp_for_rect_in_rect(1)
         create_bmp_for_stripline_coupler(1)
         create_bmp_for_symmetrical_stripline(1)
         design_coupler(1)
         find_optimal_dimensions_for_microstrip_coupler(1)
         hinv - SGI's IRIX only.
         readbin(1)

         http://atlc.sourceforge.net                - Home page
         http://sourceforge.net/projects/atlc       - Download area
         atlc-X.Y.Z/docs/html-docs/index.html       - HTML docs
         atlc-X.Y.Z/docs/qex-december-1996/atlc.pdf - theory paper
         atlc-X.Y.Z/examples                        - examples