Looking for a recommendation and/or suggestions/warnings for updating a small deployment of SunRays in a university research group.
We currently have an old Sun 280R (dual 1.2 GHZ CPUs) running Solaris 10 with SunRay Server. Major application is ENVI/IDL from ITTVIS (formerly Kodak and RSI before that). Used for image display (satellite) and data processing. ENVI can use OpenGL if available. We also run some custom home grown fortran codes as well as a licensed commercial code for which we have fortran source. ENVI still runs only under SPARC on Solaris unless ITT has changed things very recently. They do support certain Linux versions and Windows. I wonder if SunRay server running on Solaris 10 x86 on something like a Sun x4170/x4270 would be an appropriate replacement for SunRay on SPARC. ENVI/IDL would still run on the SPARC but be displayed via SunRay on x86. Are there any traps for the unwary that I would need to consider? Would a x4170 with dual quad-core Xeon X5570 CPUs and 24 GB of RAM be adequate for maybe 12 SunRays? We would port the fortran code to x86 but ENVI would still run on the SPARC. Another possibility would be to run ENVI in a virtualized Windows machine under Solaris x86 but I have no idea how well that would work with SunRays. Thanks for any suggestions/machine recommendations, etc, Stuart _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
