On May 4, 11:39 am, Tom Boothby <tomas.boot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,
Well, it has 128 "threads".
> 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.
No, unfortunately it is broken on the t2 since it dies with an
internal compiler error when building gfortran. Give the seepd the t2
compiles with it is recommended to use the Sparc binaries I post
anyway since that is much faster and actually works.
> 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.
That would be interesting to see.
> 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
Cheers,
Michael
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