From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <07ed9a43752833a0109179a87acf4fa2@quintile.net> From: "Steve Simon" Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:33:46 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc In-Reply-To: <13426df10704281454wacb1793wac1554f2bee13877@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5204da58-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 For what its worth, my own brushes with HPC over the years have been Weather simulations written it C++ and MPI, tens of Mb of F77 Finite element alanysis run on mainframes (this occured twice), and video processing software consisting of tools connected by pipes - though nearly all the tools ran single threaded so parallelsim stops at the length of the pipe, say 20 modules. Unfortunately none of these would have been applicable to plan9. I still live in hope though. -Steve