Thanks, Habib.  I'm interested!

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:52 AM, habib valanejad <[email protected]
> wrote:

>  Hi Marek,
>
> Thank you very much for your response. I'll start with C++ part as you
> suggested. To gain some experiences, I'll try to compile it on Linux
> (Redhat/Centos) first. Then, I'll try to port cmake to Solaris and will
> compile it there.
>
> Also, once again, if people are interested in porting to SPARC, I maybe
> able to provide a SPARC system for them to connect. The system will be in
> DMZ so people can connect to from outside. If anybody interested, please
> let me know so I will see what I can do.
>
> Once again, thank you so much.
>
> Regards,
> Habib
>
>
> On 04/25/2014 03:14 PM, Marek Otahal wrote:
>
> Hi Habib,
>
>  some responses below..
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:04 AM, habib valanejad <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Can Nupic take advantages of system(s) with many cores,
>>
> Halfway. The core library is not parallel (imho it's the next big issue we
> need to face).
> Swarming (the optimization process for finding best parameters for models)
> would benefit (but thousands of cores is maybe an outstretch)
> More complex models, consisting of several "simple CLAs" running in
> hierarchy would, this could be interesting!
>
>
>>  and big size memories, and big data? Sounds it is product that can work
>> with big data, am I right?
>>
> yes and YES! esp the python part was memory hungry, according to my simple
> experiments (100k inputvector, 10k SP,TP) could quickly drain 16gb RAM of
> personal machine.
>
>>
>> Can it take advantages of many cores and big size memory?
>>
> see above
>
>>
>> Fujitsu new M10 systems can go up to 1024 cores, 2048 threads, and 32 TB
>> of memory.
>>
>> Regarding of resources, I may be able to provide a SPARC based hardware
>> (Solari 10 or maybe Solaris 11), if you are interested. Not a M-10 system,
>> but something which software can be ported on.
>>
>> Python should not be a problem. We already have Python ported on Solaris.
>> Also, C and C++ compilers and bunch of other tools are already available.
>>
>> Another concern is cmake, I have not found it on Solaris.
>>
> i;ve found this, https://www.opencsw.org/package/cmake/ , is it avail for
> you?
>
>
>>
>> Python's pip, I'm not sure if available and if really needed. If it is
>> needed,  may be needed to get ported.
>>
> pip is just installation tool, if you install  the dependencies manually,
> it's fine.
>
>>
>> Docker, not available on Solaris. New SPARC systems already come with
>> hypervisor and domains run on top of a hypervisor.
>>
> not needed.
>
>
>>
>> Anyway, the goal is compiling, porting Nupic for SPARC.
>>
> you could start with the C++ part, which we recently extracted to a small
> stand-alone nupic.core.  See external/ folder there for libs that you'll
> need to satisfy.
>
>  Cheers,
>  --
> Marek Otahal :o)
>
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