On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:09:08 -0700 Vivek Ayer <vivek.a...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi guys,
I realize openbsd/sparc64 is probably the best port of any OS to the
sparc64 architecture, however I work in an environment where
matlab/mathematica are greatly needed. I know openbsd/i386 has linux
binary emulation, which would do the trick, but I want to use these 2
awesome Sun blade machines that have loads of RAM waiting to be used
(8 GB in all just dying to be used). Do you all have any suggestions
on how I can matlab/mathematica to possibly use this much memory even
though they probably won't be on those systems? Is there some
memcached-like solution for this. I have a linux computer on the
network which has matlab/mathematica installed. Is there anyway I can
generically donate memory from openbsd to linux to make linux think it
more? Or some VM solution? I don't know.
There is the obvious solution of putting 8GB of memory in the x86 box - even
several year old x86 chipsets now support up to 8GB+.
I don't know your personal situation - perhaps you're in an educational
establishment which has cheap matlab licenses, but can't easily buy
hardware. Still, if your place of work can afford 2500$ on a license, it can
probably also afford 8GB RAM if you can justify your need for it. Memory can
be quite cheap these days.
Don't make life difficult for yourself if you can avoid it :).
PK
