On 21-Jan-2011, at 3:21 PM, Maarten Deen wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:01:14 +0100, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> Congratulations Iván.
>>
>> That's really a monster, it weights 544 kg ;-)
>
> If you go for power to weight ratio, than this machine doesn't perform too
> well ;)
>
> But joking aside, also in real terms it is not a superfast machine. A single
> Ultrasparc III at 1.2GHz will be outperformed by any desktop machine
> available now. Probably by a factor 5 to 10. So even having it fully loaded
> with 24 processors will not make it really fast.
>
> But apart from that, it's a really cool machine. Sure beats the SparcServer
> 2000 I've got in my attic.
> If you need hands to hack, I'm available.
>
> My advice would be to start with Solaris. I'm assuming all dependencies are
> also available there, or can be compiled. I've never been a fan of other
> OS'es than SunOS on a Sun.
>
> And do take photo's of the beast, and post some specs!
If you do go with Solaris take a look at Sun Freeware:
http://www.sunfreeware.com/
You should be able to download packaged binaries for most of the basic
applications and libraries you'll need to build the OSM toolset.
Keith.
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