[Rcpp-devel] RcppParallel on Solaris

[JJ Allaire]

If it's possible to run Solaris on AWS without an extra per-hour
charge then it would only be a matter of creating the AMI then any one
of us could use it within our own AWS accounts at no extra
(incremental) cost.




On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Romain Francois
<romain at r-enthusiasts.com> wrote:
> Would be useful to have a solaris machine on aws or whatever with R all these toils installed.
>
> I once had a virtual machine set up thanks to martyn but the user experience of virtualbox + keyboard conflicts with my french mac book keyboard was not that good.
>
> Does someone have the skills to set up a machine on aws once and (almost for all) ?
> Would someone be willing to pay for the machine ?
>
> Romain
>
>> Le 2 avr. 2015 à 15:58, JJ Allaire <jj.allaire at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> We've recently done some work on RcppParallel to make it work on
>> Windows (previously it worked on Linux and OS X only). It would be
>> wonderful to also get it working on Solaris, and in theory this
>> shouldn't be difficult as the library at the core of RcppParallel,
>> Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB), has full support for both Sun
>> and GCC compilers on Solaris
>>
>> This branch does what I think is necessary:
>>
>> https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppParallel/tree/feature/tbb-solaris
>>
>> Unfortunately none of my attempts to setup a working Solaris
>> development environment have succeeded so I have no way of testing
>> this. I'm writing to see if anyone on the list would be willing to
>> help with testing/tweaking on Solaris.
>>
>> More background on RcppParallel is here: http://rcppcore.github.io/RcppParallel/
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> J.J.
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