<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy Baker</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jellogum@gmail.com">jellogum@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:54 AM<br>
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] What is best OS for GRID or clusters?<br>To: Mark Hahn <<a href="mailto:hahn@mcmaster.ca">hahn@mcmaster.ca</a>><br><br><br>Sun Solaris Express Developer Edition, w/ Sun Studio compilers, Netbeans ... is a 4G DVD I obtained in the pulp Linux User & Developer (mag issue 76).<br>
<br>For legacy hardware, it would work.<br><br>Time is finite for me, I must pick a system, and presently I have plans to focus on GCC and BSD Linux, that is until a reasonable argument is made to switch, if there is a reason. <br>
<br>Baker<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Mark Hahn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hahn@mcmaster.ca" target="_blank">hahn@mcmaster.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Any significant reason to use SOLARIS over a Linux distro for development of<br>
software?<br>
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in the absence of any other info, it would be absurd to choose solaris.<br>
solaris is merely yet another proprietary version of unix, used by a vanishingly small fraction of people. generally only those with a fetish<br>
for "commercial support". experienced users know that "support" is always far short of the PhB dream of a warm cocoon of "everything just<br>
works or someone else fixes it instantly".<div><br>
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Does the same C/C++ file compile well on both systems? If there are<br>
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it depends on the code. any code can be non-portable, but any portable code will (by definition) compile and run on either OS.<div><br>
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differences where can I find suggested reading material on the topic?<br>
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well, the beowulf list isn't a good place to start. linux is the defacto<br>
standard unix; solaris is merely something you can get from sun. there are<br>
some bits of software which sun still provides only on solaris - the only<br>
possible rational reason to use solaris is to get those (ZFS is really the only one considered significant.)<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></div></div><font color="#888888">-- <br>Jeremy Baker<br>SBN 634<br>337 College Hill<br>Johnson, VT<br>05656<br>
</font></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jeremy Baker<br>SBN 634<br>337 College Hill<br>Johnson, VT<br>05656<br>