hmm, there are sparc solaris machines on skynet; they are much faster than t2...
On Mar 2, 2:29 am, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > > mhampton wrote: > >> Congratulations, it seems that you have made a great deal of progress > >> on this! > >> -Marshall > > Yes, congratulations! > > > Thank you Marshall. > > > Hopefully, Solaris can soon become "fully supported" if all tests > > are passing. > > > As long as the releases are handled carefully, and code not > > committed that breaks on Solaris, we should be able to get > > OpenSolaris building. > > > Having a faster machine than 't2' on sage.math would be really nice. > > It's a real shame, as 't2' is capable of very high performance at > > low power consumption for the tasks it is designed for, but I find > > using a 10-year old machine quicker for Sage development. > > Once OpenSolaris is up and running, we could put it in a VM on boxen, > and use it as part of the build farm. Of course that won't be a true > Sparc solaris machine, but unless someone has extra money/hardware > laying around it'll probably be a more realistic solution that waiting > on t2 throughout the whole release management process. > > - Robert -- 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
