On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> wrote: > 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. >
I do *not* have a bucket of money to spend for hardware for Sage development. I have a friend who is going to buy some hardware for their institutional use of math software, and I will let them put their hardware at UW in exchange for some sharing of accounts and hardware resources. The first priority for the actual hardware is that it meet their needs. -- William -- 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
