On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Christopher Swenson <ch...@caswenson.com> wrote: > I'll be sure to ask what kind of CPUs they intend to donate. > > I was also hoping that UW might be able to provide power, cooling, and > administration.
They could provide the power and cooling and maybe the space (if it is 1U). But the admin is difficult, especially for somebody who doesn't know solaris, and also necessary for security reasons (etc.). I had a (very slow) Sparc T2 donated by Sun, and I donated it to another department, since it was big (2U or 4U?), used a lot of power, was hard to admin, and as mentioned before, slow for Sage testing usage. They actually used it for something. What about QEMU: "QEMU has support for both 32 and 64-bit SPARC architectures." ? QEMU sparc on a very first intel Xeon with big cache might be faster than a Sun machine... William > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpfl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 11:04:01 AM UTC+1, Dr David Kirkby wrote: >>> >>> On 5 Mar 2014 09:22, "Jean-Pierre Flori" <jpf...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> >>> > We would also need somewhere to host (and feed with electricity and >>> > network) the box. >>> > Unfortunately I cannot provide that at work. >>> >>> William got donated a SPARC some years back, but it had a CPU that was >>> not designed for the task. It was slower running Sage than my much older >>> SPARC. If someone is in discussions with Oracle about getting a SPARC, then >>> the type of CPU needs to be discussed, since some SPARC processors are ill >>> suited to Sage. >>> >>> Going back a few years, William had a T series machine, but an M series >>> would have been much better. But things change and I have no idea if that's >>> the case now. >> >> Both series still exist. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
