On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > In gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel, you wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 2012-04-29, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: >>>> On 2012-04-28 20:44, mmarco wrote: >>>>> Will some day ARM be one of the platforms oficially supported? >>>> I guess a platform can only be truly officially supported if there is a >>>> buildbot for it. If we don't test on ARM, sooner or later something >>>> will break. >>> >>> one can try hosting a buildbot on http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm >>> I have no idea how hard is to actually get an account there though. >>> (And they only have ARM running Ubuntu 9.10, it seems) >> >> I can possibly buy an ARM linux box specifically for this purpose >> (using Sage Foundation money), or get one added to skynet, maybe. >> What would be the optimal ARM computer for this purpose, optimal OS, >> etc.? Please be as precise as possible. Thanks! > > it seems there is no "high-power" ARM box available, and it's not so > easy to get something ready-to-use, with Ethernet and HD built-in. > Currently the fastest available things are ARM Cortex-9 chip-based, > which is a dual-core 1GHz. A standard build of Sage on such a thing takes a > while > (10 hours or so, using both cores). > One option might be: > http://trimslice.com/web/trim-slice-h-specifications > (specifically, Trim-Slice H250, which has a HD built-in, something > that might be better suited for our purposes, and it has Ubuntu > installed.) > it can be ordered directly here: > http://trimslice.com/web/order-direct > > Otherwise one might need to buy a development board, which is probably > too much trouble. On the other hand they now (released only this year) > have Cortex-15 chip, which > is up to quad-core and 2GHz. >
Thanks for researching this! So I could buy a Trim-Slice H250 for about $350, get a name assigned to it (trim.math.washington.edu)? and put it in our server room. But it will take 10 hours to build sage. Or, I could wait a few months (?) for a Cortex-15 version to come out, and it should be about the same, but take much less time to do builds. Would you volunteer to be the admin for the machine, assuming I set it up and give you root? > Dima > > -- > 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 -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
