Ultra 10's Question

So, I recently liberated nine Sun Ultra10's from my university's trash heap before they were thrown away. I would like to use them for doing some grid computing, but unforunately, not many grid computing projects are compiled for SPARC. However, they do all have cards with X86 coprocessors on them.
How can I use these coprocessors as well as the main processor to do this computing? What kind of software do I need to use the cards? Do I need a specific Operating System to be able to interface with the cards? Can I virtualize the main SPARC processors so that X86 code will run on them? If so, how?

it depends on which SunPci card you have... the I, II and III I think are limited to Solaris 9 and below (and XP). you will have to search the hardware forum and the Sun site find more...
the first three are limited on ram and cpu power... so, try... too bad you are trying it with an U10... not much horsepower there either... and ide to boot.
good luck!
haroldkarl

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Well, a couple comments...
- Good luck finding any new PC with serial and/or
floppy :( I hate how those are being phased out, I
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A+
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Here is some additional informaiton that I was able to capture from the boot process.
(Here is what I get when I boot.)
===============================================================
SUN Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (Ultra SPARC-11 333mhz), Keyboard present OpenBoot 3.15, 256 memory installed, Serial #********. Ethernet Address 8:0:26: a4:z2:1F Host ID....
Boot Device: disk File and Args
Sun OS Release 5.9 Version Generic ID 112233-48 64bit
Copyright 1992-2003 Sun Microsystems, inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to terms.
Configuring IPv4 Interface hme0.
Configuring IPv6 Interface hme0.
Hostname lucky
The / file system (/dev/rdsk/...........) is being checked.
[the periods are place holders as I cant read the picture I took when it was going on.]
SUNF,hme0 no response from the Eithernet network & link down -- Cable Problem?
SUNF,hme0 no response from the Eithernet network & link down -- Cable Problem?
SUNF,hme0 no response from the Eithernet network & link down -- Cable Problem?
===========================================
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==========================================
SUN Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (Ultra SPARC-11 333mhz), Keyboard present
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SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_112233-01 64-bit
Copyright 1993-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to terms.
============================================

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Sure i do ....If what you say is true ...Because AMi BIOS has a setting for FSB in BIOS which mine is set to 270 MHZ. Im a veteran and i have built CPUs so overclocking is not the issue. The issue is the amount of MHZ i can set in bios that does not equal up to what it should in Wcupid. Please re read my post and you will see what im talking about or go into AMI bIOS ver 1.0 if you are able to and see what im talking about. I can reach 276 in that setting (max with this bios version is 280) but the multiplier has to be dropped to 11.5 to gain stabability. Id rather have a lower 270 setting and higher multiplier just because its stable and is not overheating . I want to know why i cant set that in BIOS to max setting (280) . CPU wont boot if i raise it past 276 at 11.5 multiplying.
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(sorry for my english , I'm french...)

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Aperture and me Ol' G5

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Certainly, but if Eric's been using iPhoto all this
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I realize that by giving Eric the specs of my box as
a point of reference may have not been the best, and
rather mentioned the people running Aperture on G4s.
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When I use PC Alert4 with my 845GE Max (MS-6580 v2), CPU Fan is display "0"?
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The only version of PC Alert4 that I can find on the MSI site is even when I run Live Update 2:
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