I created a Trac Ticket to add HP-UX support.
Dr. David Kirkby
somewhat to stop the water freezing. (There's a small room in the
garage, which has water)
I thought running my HP C3600 HP-UX workstation would make a good
heater. In fact the machine is throwing out very little heat - far less
than my Suns! It's probably an illusion created by the much larger fan
size, but it seems to produce less heat than my laptop.
Anyway, I created a trac ticket for adding HP-UX support.
http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7140
Whilst I see it as a low-priority (added only to sage-wishlist), it
would be a nice addition. Something none of the other maths packages
have as far as I am aware.
At some point I'll install gcc and sage on my HP C3600, type 'make' and
see what happens.
If it is well thought out, adding support for Sun Studio, 64-bit on
Solaris, AIX and HP-UX could all be done in parallel. The problems are
all basically the same
* Get rid of GNUisms.
* Find the right compiler flags.
* Find the right linker flags.
99% of the issues connected with Solaris seem to be one of those three
problems.
I did in fact try sage on HP-UX back in June 2008
on a publicly accessible HP-UX machine. Unfortunately, that machine is
no longer publicly accessible, as HP discontinued their 'test drive'
program. But as I say, I do have one of my own.
I might have to fire up my IBM RS6000 this winter. That I am sure will
produce sufficient heat to warm the garage. If not, I'll just keep
adding SCSI disks. It can take about a dozen or so disks. With 4 CPUs, I
am sure that must eat enough electricity to keep the bit of my garage
warms where there is water.
Dave
Dan Drake
> With Winter approaching, I was looking for a way to heat my garage
> somewhat to stop the water freezing. (There's a small room in the
> garage, which has water)
>
> I thought running my HP C3600 HP-UX workstation would make a good
> heater. In fact the machine is throwing out very little heat - far
> less than my Suns! It's probably an illusion created by the much
> larger fan size, but it seems to produce less heat than my laptop.
Sage: creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple,
Mathematica and Matlab, and preventing frozen water pipes. :)
Dan
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Dr. David Kirkby
Actually, given the amount of heat the HP C3600 is putting out, I think
it does the first 4 much better than the 5th!
Dave