[Biojava-l] snapshot? / Sun hardware donation to open-bio

[chris dagdigian]

Since the paperwork is in order and the hardware should be arriving 
shortly I feel comfortable revealing for the first time on one of our 
public lists that Sun Microsystems has donated a very significant amount 
of hardware to our project(s). Included in the hardware grant are 
several nicely configured Netra T1 rackmount servers and a much needed 
external RAID storage system.

I'm not sure when I will have time to configure and build out our "new" 
server infrastructure but it will certainly not happen in time for 
BOSC/ISMB. Most likely we will have the system(s) online in the 
August/September timeframe.

So- in a few months biojava people will have access to Solaris 8 running 
on Netra servers. This should probably be a sufficient OS/platform to 
test your nightly builds :)

We have also purchased a Pentium III VA Linux 1220 rackmount server 
(taking advantage of their firesale pricing) but if it becomes our 
firewall/IDS it will most likely be off limits for dev work.

Any Sun or Solaris gurus in the Boston area who would be willing to help 
with setup and config issues please drop me a line.

-Chris


Thomas Down wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 06:25:31PM -0400, chris dagdigian wrote:
> 
>>Our "new" anonymous CVS box that Jason S and I built on one of his recent 
>>visits to Boston is a 900mhz Athalon system running OpenBSD 2.8. There is a 
>>rather large EIDE drive and a decent amount of memory as well.
>>
>>If anyone is interested in building a system for doing nightly builds on 
>>this machine I can set up user accounts.
>>
>>FYI I'm not sure about the state of java under OpenBSD....
>>
> 
> Last I heard I didn't think there was a terribly good
> Java implementation for OpenBSD.  But there is someone doing
> a `proper' port of 1.3 (hotspot and all) to FreeBSD.  Anyone
> know how good the inter-BSD-flavour binary compatibility
> is these days?