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