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1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Solaris Boinc (Message 14895) Posted 3 Aug 2005 by old_user559 Post: > we would need a Solaris box and proper C++ & Fortran compilers, which > unfortunately we lack. At one point Sun UK was going to donate a box but I > never heard again. We never seem to get "freebies" -- probably because this > climate model doesn't make any computers look like "speed demons!" :-) > There's a lot of things I'd like to do such as Solaris & AMD64 CPDN > clients but unfortunately due to lack of resources (hardware & money for > software i.e. compilers) it seems doubtful they'll get done. > If you ever plan to make the Solaris port, I would be willing to help you in order to test it over more than a dozen heterogeneous SPARC Machines (UltraSparcs, Enterprise Servers, E1000Ks, SunFires 6800 or even SunFires 25K) as well as AMD Opterons on 64 bits on Solaris x86. <a href="http://Sun-Microsystems.ORG">http://Sun-Microsystems.ORG</a>

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