[kepler-dev] Kepler distribution for Solaris
Amanda Waite
Amanda.Waite at Sun.COM
Fri Jun 29 10:22:25 PDT 2007
Hi Dan,
Thanks, the garpModel_ImageJ workflow works fine. I also found that all
of the GIS JNI actors had main methods in their JniGlue programs and all
of these check out too, same for Backprop. GDAL runs but I don't have an
input file. The only one I can't test is the library loaded by
com.numericsolutions.geomodeltools.GeomodelGlue
As for the builds, I have two Solaris builds, one is the Linux
distribution with the Solaris built native libraries and a modified
startup script, the other was built from CVS. They are slightly
different as the Linux distribution doesn't have a lib/jar/base_jars
directory and the build I checked out of CVS does. I'm inclined to go
with the built from source version.
Thanks for offering to talk to Matt for me.
Kind regards
Amanda
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
>
> ----
>
> 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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