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