[kepler-dev] Kepler distribution for Solaris

[Matthew Jones]

Amanda,

We would be happy to put up a Solaris installer if there is an advantage 
of doing so over just using the generic linux/unix installer.

Matt

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Matthew B. Jones
Director of Informatics Research and Development
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
UC Santa Barbara
jones at nceas.ucsb.edu
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics
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Amanda Waite wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've tried to see if I can install Kepler as a Solaris package which 
> would effectively make it available to all users on the system but what 
> I'm finding is that some of the actors always write intermediate files 
> and results to $KEPLER or $KEPLER/lib. If I try to redefine the KEPLER 
> property that's passed in on the command line I end up breaking 
> everything. Is there a way of separating the location of the Kepler 
> runtime from the location to which the actors write files and results?
> 
> Dan, did you have a chance to talk to Matt Jones about the Solaris version?
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Amanda - Sun Microsystems
> 
> 
> Dan Higgins wrote:
>> Hi Amanda,
>>     With regard to your question about actors that call JNI, there are 3 
>> 'GARP' actors (GARPPresampleLayers, GARPAlgorithm, and GARPPrediction) 
>> that use a JNI connection to C++ code. A workflow that uses these actors 
>> is $KEPLER/demos/SEEK/garpModel_ImageJ.xml.
>>     Currently, we have the dynamic link libraries for these JNI actors 
>> in the $KEPELR/lib directory with libraries for Linux, Mac OSX, and 
>> Windows.        
>>     Source code for these and several other JNI actors is in the 
>> $KEPLER/src/cpp directory.
>>
>>     With regard to putting a precompiled Sun version of Kepler on the 
>> www.kepler-project.org site, it seems to me that this is just the Sun 
>> version of the current installers that on the web site now. I built the 
>> current installers and it would be easy to add a link to a Sun 
>> distribution. Matt Jones is the project manager for this and he needs to 
>> decide the mechanisms (i.e. you could send me a file, or you could be 
>> given access to the server). Matt is on vacation now. I'll talk to him 
>> when he returns.
>>
>> Dan Higgins
>> NCEAS
>>
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>>
>> Amanda Waite - SUN ISV-Engineering wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I was originally asked to look at how we could make Kepler available on 
>>> the Sun Grid at network.com and that's kind of morphed into, "what can 
>>> we do to help the Kepler community with enabling Kepler for the Grid 
>>> (Specifically Sun Grid Engine)", something that we are looking into. In 
>>> the meantime I've been asked if I could build Kepler on Solaris 10 and 
>>> make it available for people to download and install and run on Solaris 
>>> without having to make any changes to scripts, etc. This is fairly 
>>> straightforward as Kepler builds with no problems on Solaris 10 and the 
>>> workflow tests and examples all run to completion (with one exception 
>>> that I'm still looking into). I feel that the best place for hosting a 
>>> Solaris 10 distro would be on kepler-project.org and wanted to find out 
>>> if this is possible and what would need to be in place to make it 
>>> happen. An alternative option would be to make it available as a Soalris 
>>> package from blastwave.org, but | feel that its better if at all 
>>> possible, for someone wanting to run Kepler on Solaris to get it from 
>>> the community site. Let me know if this is something that would be of 
>>> interest to the community.
>>>
>>> BTW: Are there any workflows that test the actors that call into native 
>>> code via JNI? I should be able to build the libraries on Solaris but I'd 
>>> then need to test them.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards
>>>
>>> Amanda
>>>   
>>>     
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