As those who have used 't2' know, it is not the fastest machine in the world. The machines I have at home
* Sun Blade 1000 , dual 900 MHZ, 2 GB RAM * Sun Blade 2000, dual 1.2 GHz, are both faster. I tried using skynet yesterday, but the two machines on there (Sun Bade 2500's with 1.28 GHz processors) should be marginally quicker than my Blade 2000, but in practice they are not, as they are heavily used. Both had 2 CPU bound tasks running on them. Dennis Clark of Blastwave has given me access to a Blade 2000 with a couple of 1.6 GHz CPUs. Whilst this is not as quick as an M3000 which I feel would be an ideal machine for Sage development, it is significantly quicker than anything I own. It will also allow me to power off my machines, which is a welcome relief due to their running costs. Perhaps Harald could add this fact the acknowledgements page. If Willam has any chance of getting funding for futher hardware, then an Sun (now Oracle) M3000 http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sparc-enterprise/031588.htm is the cheapest new machine that will give us a perfomrance bost over anything else any of us have access to. The processors are 3 generations newer than anything I have any acess two, and run at almost twice the speed. It's a real shame the T5240 donated by Sun is not working well for us - it is designed for a totally different task. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
