On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 13, 3:09 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net>
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>> mabshoff wrote:
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> Hi David,
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>> > Once more for the record: Sun is *not* sponsoring the Solaris port of
>> > Sage, the DoD does that.
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>> Sorry, I mis-read William's presentation
>> "Funding from Microsoft, UW, NSF, DoD, Google, Sun, private donors etc".
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> Yes, but Sun gave Sage the new hardware at a rather excellent price.
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>> It's good to see somebody (DoD)is funding the port. I think there could
>> be a lot of interest in this from Solaris people, who tend to often come
>> from scientific backgrounds.
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> I can see that, too. There is certainly still enough large Sparc SMP
> hardware around since if you need a large SMP box you can either pick
> Itanium, Sparc or Power6 and when I mean large SMP I am taking 0.5+ TB
> RAM or more, so 8 sockets won't cut it :)
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>> > Sun has recently offered some resources like
>> > access to large machines to help out which is very welcome.
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>> Yes, I'm sure it is useful. There is some serious looking hardware in
>> that Sage presentation on the Sun web site.
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> Ironically it is running Linux :)

Not all of it.   The disk array is running OpenSolaris and one of
virtualization node has virtual machines running Solaris 10 and
OpenSolaris.


William

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