On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 13, 3:09 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> > wrote: >> mabshoff wrote: > > Hi David, > >> > Once more for the record: Sun is *not* sponsoring the Solaris port of >> > Sage, the DoD does that. >> >> Sorry, I mis-read William's presentation >> "Funding from Microsoft, UW, NSF, DoD, Google, Sun, private donors etc". > > Yes, but Sun gave Sage the new hardware at a rather excellent price. > >> 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. > > 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 :) > >> > Sun has recently offered some resources like >> > access to large machines to help out which is very welcome. >> >> Yes, I'm sure it is useful. There is some serious looking hardware in >> that Sage presentation on the Sun web site. > > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---