Norman,
> Platform: Any new machines anyone purchases will be Intel. The
What happened to AMD?
> here for 10.4. I can't speak to this, because I've still not got
> around to putting a Fortran compiler on this machine since I put 10.4
> on it (thus I haven't build the USSC for some months; SUN/248 is
> getting increasingly out of date).
Yes, compiler versions are important too. As I'm taking over from
Steve, I thought that it was a good time to review the builds. I want
to be confident that we're running the most useful nightly builds
commensurate with JAC needs and former Starlink sites (the Softweare
Lifeboat).
> If money miraculously condenses out of thin air by the end of the
> year,
I don't see us having funding for a MacIntel.
> support PPC machines, so that might be a good time to scrounge ~£100
We can likely afford 100 UKP.
Malcolm
|