On 2010-Jan-27 19:24:18 +0000, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >It does not seem unreasonable to check ones patches on Solaris, OS X and one >linux distro. Of course it does not guarantee it will work on every linux >distro, but it would have a reasonable probability of doing so.
What's needed is a build cluster that will automatically build and test specified sage package across a range of OSs and summarize the build/test logs. This is not a trivial undertaking but examples of this sort of thing do exist. >Solaris 10 on SPARC can not go onto a virtual machine. Well, it can't go onto VirtualBox. There's no reason t2 couldn't be virtualised and have Linux/SPARC run in a logical domain. >There was univeral agreement the T5240 is not suitable for what we >are using it for. Agreed. >What was also interesting was the view from many non-Sun employees that 't2' >really flies as a web server, and leaves any Intel box standing. It is simply >not designed for what we are using it for and as such performs very badly. Once Sage runs on Sol10, t2 might make a reasonable notebook server (though its comparatively poor FP performance would probably count against it). Given the Willian has a bucket of money to spend, maybe he should invest in a UltraSPARC based system - an 2nd hand V440 or V445 or a new M-series machine. These have much better single-threaded performance. -- Peter Jeremy
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