[kepler-dev] Kepler on Solaris

[Dan Higgins]

Hi Amanda,
    My name is Dan Higgins and I work at NCEAS at UC Santa Barbara. I 
put together the Kepler installers that are on kepler-project.org and 
the nightly build. I don't know of anyone running Kepler on Solaris. 
However, the basic Kepler application is pure Java. It should then run 
just fine on Solaris (and it does run on Windows, Mac OS X, and several 
versions of Linux).
    There are a few actors that use OS specific jni routines, but not 
having all the dynamic libraries on Solaris would only affect those 
specific workflows that use those actors. Also, we are currently using 
Java 1.5 (and there are a couple of minor problems with compiling the 
Java code under Java 1.6).

Dan Higgins
NCEAS - UC Santa Barbara

Amanda Waite - SUN ISV-Engineering wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> My name is Amanda Waite and I'm a Staff engineer working with Open 
> Source Communities here at Sun. We see Kepler as an important 
> application particular in the area of Grid Computing and we would really 
> like to make it available on Solaris 10 and on the Sun Grid. What I'm 
> looking to do initially is make sure that Kepler runs on Solaris 10 
> without problems, and as expected performance-wise. I'll can then make 
> it available on the Sun Grid at http://www.network.com. I'd then like to 
> work with the community and if possible putback the changes, if any, 
> that were made in the course of the port.
>
> Does this sound ok? Does anyone already run Kepler on Solaris? I did 
> scan through the archives for the last year or so but didn't see any 
> references to Solaris.
>
> Thanks
>
> Amanda
>