From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10807300841y1e4bed36l7a009c8873f39c1b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:41:37 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <48908707.1070005@mtu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <488B6EE7.3080100@mtu.edu> <1217421120.5036.34.camel@goose.sun.com> <13426df10807300810s4d854612ib7597a9463f7f02f@mail.gmail.com> <48908707.1070005@mtu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene Topicbox-Message-UUID: f5e6b456-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Steven D. Vormwald wrote: > So would developers on this platform be encouraged to use languages and > features currently in plan 9 for HPC development, or would they target > existing HPC languages and features, which would be added to plan 9, either > via native ports or some kind of compatibility layer? The latter. Build on Linux, run on Plan 9. For most users. Some users have the time and willingness to try something new like Plan 9, most have day jobs and just want to run their code. So we make it as easy for them as we can. > I noticed that a > limited version of MPI was mentioned in one of the papers on IBM's website, > but what about other systems, such as Co-Array fortran or UPC? > Cross-compile. ron