From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <48908707.1070005@mtu.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:21:43 -0400 From: "Steven D. Vormwald" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <488B6EE7.3080100@mtu.edu> <1217421120.5036.34.camel@goose.sun.com> <13426df10807300810s4d854612ib7597a9463f7f02f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <13426df10807300810s4d854612ib7597a9463f7f02f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene Topicbox-Message-UUID: f58dad20-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ron minnich wrote: > In the HPC world, there is lots of conservatism. There is an editor at > LANL, named Fred, written in Fortran, that has been in use for longer > than most of you have been alive. Until very recently, it was a > required part of any HPC system. > > So, we're doing a binary compatibility module so we can run code > compiled with the hot IBM compilers like XLC and XLF. > > ron > 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? 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? Steven Vormwald