Re: [OSM-dev] Rendering on a SPARC

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Körner
Am 21.01.2011 08:21, schrieb Maarten Deen: 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. But don't use the Sun Studio compiler, use gcc. At the toolserver we

Re: [OSM-dev] Rendering on a SPARC

2011-01-21 Thread Keith Sharp
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,

Re: [OSM-dev] Rendering on a SPARC

2011-01-21 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
On Friday 21 January 2011 08:21:48 Maarten Deen wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-dev] Rendering on a SPARC

2011-01-21 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
On Friday 21 January 2011 12:18:24 Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: The selling point is the amount of RAM that baby has. I cannot believe I might be able to load it into memory. I mean, the planet. The whole planet in memory. -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega

Re: [OSM-dev] Rendering on a SPARC

2011-01-21 Thread Łukasz Jernaś
2011/1/20 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: Hi all, I'm trying to get my hands on a big, fat, beautiful SPARC machine with gazillions of computing power (see http://www.spectra.com/pdfs/e6800.pdf). We'll be trying to put Debian or Ubuntu on that thing. Now the question is: does

[OSM-dev] Rendering on a SPARC

2011-01-20 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
Hi all, I'm trying to get my hands on a big, fat, beautiful SPARC machine with gazillions of computing power (see http://www.spectra.com/pdfs/e6800.pdf). We'll be trying to put Debian or Ubuntu on that thing. Now the question is: does mapnik/mod_tile/tirex compile on a SPARC platform? What's

Re: [OSM-dev] Rendering on a SPARC

2011-01-20 Thread Ian Dees
Many many moons ago I wanted to do the same sort of Debian installation on a SparcStation 20 so I signed up for this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/ http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/I still get lots of e-mail from the list, so I imagine it's quite active and they'd be able to help

Re: [OSM-dev] Rendering on a SPARC

2011-01-20 Thread Maarten Deen
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