Recently, Sun donated a new machine to the Sage community. It's a Sun T5240 with two SPARC T2 processors (8 cores total) and 32GB of RAM, and runs Solaris 5.10. As with the other machines in the network, you have access to your home directory from there; and provided you haven't changed your password this week, your login should be the same as it is at sage.math. Find it at t2.math.washington.edu, or from sage.math, simply t2.
Thanks to Michael Abshoff, there's a custom-built toolchain sufficient to build Sage. Your admins are a little nexperienced with Solaris, so the machine isn't quite as easy to use as we might like. We're working to fix little hiccups as we find them. Also, none of Mathematica, Matlab, or Maple are installed yet, but we plan to install them soon. Sun donated the hardware so that we could improve portability of various open source projects. The T2 processors are designed to be highly multithreaded; though we haven't gotten very good performance out of them yet, the specs indicate that the potential for the processors is nothing short of incredible. So experiment away; and please share if you figure out how to get the most out of the machine. If you don't have access to sage.math and you have a good reason to access the T2, please contact William Stein. Enjoy, --tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
