With Winter approaching, I was looking for a way to heat my garage somewhat to stop the water freezing. (There's a small room in the garage, which has water)
I thought running my HP C3600 HP-UX workstation would make a good heater. In fact the machine is throwing out very little heat - far less than my Suns! It's probably an illusion created by the much larger fan size, but it seems to produce less heat than my laptop. Anyway, I created a trac ticket for adding HP-UX support. http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7140 Whilst I see it as a low-priority (added only to sage-wishlist), it would be a nice addition. Something none of the other maths packages have as far as I am aware. At some point I'll install gcc and sage on my HP C3600, type 'make' and see what happens. If it is well thought out, adding support for Sun Studio, 64-bit on Solaris, AIX and HP-UX could all be done in parallel. The problems are all basically the same * Get rid of GNUisms. * Find the right compiler flags. * Find the right linker flags. 99% of the issues connected with Solaris seem to be one of those three problems. I did in fact try sage on HP-UX back in June 2008 http://groups.google.co.uk/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/b201b0f4908ff194/3cb27a63036d5169?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%5Bsage-devel%5D+Notes+for+an+attempt+to+build+Sage+on+HP-UX#3cb27a63036d5169 on a publicly accessible HP-UX machine. Unfortunately, that machine is no longer publicly accessible, as HP discontinued their 'test drive' program. But as I say, I do have one of my own. I might have to fire up my IBM RS6000 this winter. That I am sure will produce sufficient heat to warm the garage. If not, I'll just keep adding SCSI disks. It can take about a dozen or so disks. With 4 CPUs, I am sure that must eat enough electricity to keep the bit of my garage warms where there is water. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
