IBM maintains an
excellent page (click here) with all products which are available on Oracle Solaris 11 (SPARC).
Need to make Hadoop fly on Solaris?
Here's the article which teaches you to build the native libraries to expedite operations.
My problem:
- I had to check whether a library builds smoothly on Solaris 11 for SPARC as well as x86. My plan was to use a clean fresh environment without artifacts from previous projects.
The first half was already accomplished. I used a Virtualbox image of Solaris 11 on my 8GB laptop, I created a zone, added the development tools needed and I built the library. The SPARC build was the one who actually drove me to the remote lab.
An external partner will have to submit an application to access the lab. I received my access credentials last night.
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