Excellent! I am very happy to be of help. I have an IBM xSeries AMD64 server at home. If you will tell me your choice of platform and virtualization technology for this project I can begin working this weekend. If we coordinate our efforts well, we should be able to transfer my virtual machine images and definitions to your new hardware and then just fire them up. I recommend CentOS/KVM on technical merit, but you must of course weigh many non-technical and site-specific factors into your ultimate choice. I am highly flexible.
--Matt On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:12:03 AM UTC-5, William wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Matthew Alton > <matthe...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a professional Unix sys admin. My current title is Senior > Systems > > Administrator at Magellan Health Services. I have been working in Unix > and > > Linux system administration for 23 years. I currently work with a small > > team on the care and feeding of a few hundred AIX LPARs and RHEL VMware > > nodes. Back in 2001 I was able to get Python onto the list of approved > > programming languages at Anheuser-Busch. My colleague and I wrote > several > > hundred thousand lines of Python code which are still in production on > > Solaris, AIX and Linux machines there. I am also a master C programmer. > I > > specialize in systems programming and software porting. SAGE is a huge > help > > to me in my studies at Saint Louis Community College where I am > currently > > re-taking Calculus 2 after 25 years. > > > > If you can provide the hardware and bandwidth for a build farm of VMs, > I > > can help with the porting, testing, packaging, and documentation of > SAGE. I > > would recommend using a Linux machine as the VM host with KVM as the > > virtualization technology. I can help with designing and building such > a > > machine. I would be happy to help with any other technology as well, > though > > I might be less familiar with it. I've worked with KVM, Xen, BSD Jails, > AIX > > LPARs, Solaris Domains, VMware, VirtualBox, and several experimental > > systems. As long as you're happy with purely simulated hardware devices > KVM > > is an excellent choice. > > > > We might start with RHEL/Fedora/CentOS/Scientific Linux (RPM), SUSE > (RPM), > > Ubuntu/Debian (APT), FreeBSD (PKG), Gentoo and others. Once the farm is > > built the job of maintaining the ports and packages on each node could > be > > shared. We should assume the role of official package maintainer for > SAGE > > with each of the OSes & distros. > > > > I might be able to recruit a colleague to assist in the effort, though > he > > is currently enrolled in Real Analysis at UMSL. His time is severely > > limited. > > > > Peace. > > > > --Matt > > > > Awesome -- the above is enough to convince me to plan to move forward > with this. I will plan to have such a machine setup to be configured > in less than 2 months. I want to wait to try out a similar machine, > which I ordered a week ago, but hasn't arrived yet. > > -- William > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
