[Rcpp-devel] RcppParallel on Solaris

[Martyn Plummer]

On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 10:03 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 2 April 2015 at 16:31, Romain Francois 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 ?
> 
> The R Foundation (and related entities) really should own this. We have some
> paperwork to get out of the way first but given how "we all" suffer from
> Solaris complaints it really should be possible to submit build jobs as we do
> on Windows. Maybe by end-of-year. 

I agree (although I am saying that personally and not as president).

I am happy to share my experience with Solaris. I have been meaning to
write a step-by-step guide to setting up a Solaris testing platform for
R on a VirtualBox VM, so this gives me some impetus to write it. 

Martyn

> If only we had someone with Solaris skills :-/ ... but maybe proper Unix
> skills will do for creating / administering a build queue.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> 
> 
> | 
> | 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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