Dear all, Planning ahead. It would be nice to compile Anaconda for science sometime in the future.
Regards, Robert https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/computing/software/anaconda-scientific-python-distribution On 17/04/2021 18:24, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > I'm about to set up an HP Z840 with 1x 14 core E5-2690 V4, a 4x 4 TB RAIDZ2 > array and 4x 16 GB ECC DIMMs. > > The dbx implementation in the Oracle/Sun/Forte compiler suite is the only > debugger I've encountered which will evaluate F77 intrinsics on the command > line. This is immensely valuable to a scientific programmer. Without that > one must use temporary variables when debugging. While the optimization > process will remove the overhead, it makes the code quite long winded and > ugly. > > I currently have Studio 12.1 on Hipster 2017.10 and have not seen any issues, > though more serious work has been done on my S10 u8 system. I tend to prefer > mixed F77 and C89 for reasons of portability and the vast number of high > quality scientific libraries available. > > It seems to me that 14 cores and 64 GB of DRAM should be sufficient to run > S11.4 in a VM if I *really* need the latest Studio version. The Z840 will > take 12 more DIMMs so I can easily expand memory and add a 2nd 14 core > E5-2690 V4 if needed. > > This inclines me to use Hipster as the base OS and use VirtualBox to run > S11.4, Win 7, Debian and an OI build system in VMs when needed with a fall > back of a Z400 and swappable disks if MMU limitations constrain performance > too much. > > Ten years ago a VM was not viable for building OI, but 14 cores and 64 GB of > DRAM seems to me likely to handle it. Is an OI VM running on top of OI > viable for building and testing? In particular, how good is VBox for that? > it's become very Windows host oriented. I'm also aware the Solaris USB > support is not very good. I'll have Win 7 and Debian available running > native on a Z400 if USB proves an issue for working with microcontrollers > which is my primary use case for both of those. > > Thanks. > > Have Fun! > Reg > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
