From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090423165635.GA1261@polynum.com> References: <3aaafc130904172257g57bae1apbcff37de5461a604@mail.gmail.com> <052277c2fbf7baa6266ec16b1b8d253d@quanstro.net> <3aaafc130904180910j18466647w788a802022a05f82@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10904180920u3036597bvbe83a1d099b75532@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130904180936o25b89902i81c81dd9cef7dafb@mail.gmail.com> <20090418165356.GA1884@polynum.com> <14ec7b180904181012p5dbd90ffr270334bddc125144@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10904181037k6b5b71dawe13a5ca1e08a8cd0@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10904180805w2889671fjf36c1eb720c45426@mail.gmail.com> <20090423165635.GA1261@polynum.com> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:33:59 -0700 Message-ID: <13426df10904240833i25f57f02la53b79d2b020a9e3@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years Topicbox-Message-UUID: f1d40548-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:56 AM, wrote: > clustermatic: not much left from lanl This is a long story and the situation is less a comment on the software than on the organization. I only say this because, almost 5 years after our last release, there are still people out there using it. > beowulf: seems to have stalled a little since 2007 eh? "beowulf" was never a product. It's a marketing term that means "linux cluster". The top 2 machines on the top 500 are "beowulf" systems. Not sure what you're getting at here, but you've barely scratched the surface. ron