If it's possible to run Solaris on AWS without an extra per-hour charge then it would only be a matter of creating the AMI then any one of us could use it within our own AWS accounts at no extra (incremental) cost.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Romain Francois <rom...@r-enthusiasts.com> wrote: > Would be useful to have a solaris machine on aws or whatever with R all these > toils installed. > > I once had a virtual machine set up thanks to martyn but the user experience > of virtualbox + keyboard conflicts with my french mac book keyboard was not > that good. > > Does someone have the skills to set up a machine on aws once and (almost for > all) ? > Would someone be willing to pay for the machine ? > > Romain > >> Le 2 avr. 2015 à 15:58, JJ Allaire <jj.alla...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> We've recently done some work on RcppParallel to make it work on >> Windows (previously it worked on Linux and OS X only). It would be >> wonderful to also get it working on Solaris, and in theory this >> shouldn't be difficult as the library at the core of RcppParallel, >> Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB), has full support for both Sun >> and GCC compilers on Solaris >> >> This branch does what I think is necessary: >> >> https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppParallel/tree/feature/tbb-solaris >> >> Unfortunately none of my attempts to setup a working Solaris >> development environment have succeeded so I have no way of testing >> this. I'm writing to see if anyone on the list would be willing to >> help with testing/tweaking on Solaris. >> >> More background on RcppParallel is here: >> http://rcppcore.github.io/RcppParallel/ >> >> Thanks, >> >> J.J. >> _______________________________________________ >> Rcpp-devel mailing list >> Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org >> https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
