Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi David, > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > <SNIP> > >> Learn more from my ticket at >> >> http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7188 > > I was attracted by the following comment of yours: > > {{{ > I've tested this on > > * AIX 6.1, compliments of http://www.metamodul.com/10.html > }}} > > The URL suggests that anyone can get a free account on an AIX 6.1 > machine. Is that true? How long have you been using that AIX account? > Can you tell us about your experiences on that machine, in particular, > describing the development toolchain? What's the system resources, > disk quota, and transfer rate like with a free account? >
Hi Minh, it would appear anyone can get a free AIX account for development of open-source software. I have an IBM RS6000 7025 F50 (old 32-bit machine) which I intend wiping the dust off and powering up. So I started asking some questions on comp.unix.aix, as it is many years since I last used AIX. Someone posted a comment saying he could offer me a free AIX account on a much newer release than I have, and to either email him or look at his web site http://www.metamodul.com/10.html So I emailed him, said I needed at least 3 GB for Sage, and said my preferred user name would be 'drkirkby'. I got a response saying I could have 8 GB, giving me the login details etc. I'm told at the end of Nov. the machine will be relocated thus it will be unavailable for about 4 days. Having looked around the machine a little I also see: $ uptime 07:09AM up 33 days, 17:35, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 so it does not seem overloaded or forever being rebooted. gcc 4.2.4 is on the machine, as are the native IBM compilers. I downloaded the latest sage tarball in 23 minutes, at 232K/s, so the network speed seems ok. AIX is still a current operating system, sold for IBM servers - think Sage servers. I wonder if IBM would be interested in providing any support. (One way which would be useful to me is free upgrade of AIX and development tools). IMHO it would be good if we could support AIX, along with HP-UX, which is again still current. That would be another two advantages over Mathematica. It would need some effort from others to test their software on other platforms, but the patch I posted http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7188 is needed for Solaris too. I have not tried building Sage on AIX yet, but I will have a go in the next day or two. I certainly intend testing any patches I make on AIX and HP-UX from now on. (I have my own HP-UX box). So if you want an AIX account, it looks like an email will get you one. It's almost certain some bits of Sage will not build on AIX, but if at least all the spkg-install files are written so they don't break with AIX and HP-UX, it would be good. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
