From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] parallel/distributed computation
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:29:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60710170929k456c3468n95ed0bcfa88238@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4e6962a0710170917t2a1210a4ga8ed1381a731c94d@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/17/07, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/17/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You have two choices.
> >
> > 1) write it from scratch
> > 2) port gcc and then all of gnubin -- and then all of the various
> > parallel computing software
> >
>
> Ron fails to mention that we are also looking at flushing out support
> for large-scale HPC applications under Plan 9 -- but that work is just
> getting underway and Fortran isn't one of our initial targets
> (although some level of MPI API support most likely is).
>
> -eric
>
Who's "we"? I've experience implementing MPI against Portals, TCP and funky
shared memory issues on Mac OS X.
Of course for me to do so for Plan 9 would probably violate several
employment non-competes and other IP contracts I have.
Doesn't mean I'm not interested in seeing it happen though. Plan 9 might be
really ideal for HPC, especially with myrinet drivers available and it's
absolutely no-nonsense VM subsystem. (yeah you can exhaust RAM, but all
that paging/swapping was never good for HPC anyway now was it? I'm thinking
CPlant... Ron (Minnich) might laugh at me... :-)
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-17 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-17 14:42 lejatorn
2007-10-17 16:13 ` ron minnich
2007-10-17 16:17 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-17 16:29 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2007-10-17 16:39 ` ron minnich
2007-10-26 9:46 ` Richard Miller
2007-10-26 11:32 ` roger peppe
2007-10-26 12:40 ` Richard Miller
2007-10-26 12:44 ` anyrhine
2007-10-26 15:01 ` ron minnich
2007-10-26 15:04 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-27 5:44 ` ron minnich
2007-10-27 5:53 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-28 15:21 ` Richard Miller
2007-10-18 8:42 ` Randolph Fritz
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