>> Has anyone tried/installed LCG on a SunEnterprise 10000, or even on a SPARC?
>> I found a RH 7.3 distro for Sparc named Aurora, but it seems that LCG
>> only has packages for i386.
>
>Indeed, and RH 7.3 is on its way out, for lack of security updates.
>Did you find any RHEL derivatives for SPARC?
There are no RHEL derivates for SPARC. Scientific Linux, from wich I
understand, is a RHEL compiled form scratch with minor modifications and
addittions like OpenAFS. SciLinux, is also for x86 only.
>> From what i know, LCG uses Globus 2.4. Is it possible to install only
>> Globus
>> 2.4 and configure it to receive jobs from a LCG job submitter computer?
>
>Well, as long as the job does not need any data managemant tools
(lcg-utils, >edg-rm), or R-GMA, or ...
I beleive this would be out of question. It would be the same thing just
running Globus. Is there any way to connect Sun Grid Engine to LCG? Did
anyone try this? There is a Sun Blueprint for using Globus Toolkit with Sun
Grid Engine.
>Porting all of those can be a non-trivial effort; LCG deployment can
>provide some assistance, but we will not do such porting ourselves for
>platforms that do not have a significant use case.
At first, I read "trivial" efford instead of non-trivial, and had all my
hopes up. Could you point me to a list of packages that if compiled on a
sparc, theoretily they would work?
I found this link:
http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/download/CE-torque-rpm-i386-sl3-LCG-2_4_0.html
Lots and lots of packages. Suppose I compile all of them (gasp) on a solaris
system, what are the chances, they would radicaly change in the future?
Is there a link for the source packages?
Alex Herisanu
P.S. Summarizing the whole story: LCG does not have packages for sparc based
systems, not mentioning solaris and it would be a titanic task to port all
packages to solaris sparc. True or not?
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