Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ARM questions

[John Floren <john@jfloren.net>]

xcpu is cool, but it doesn't really have anything to do with either of
his questions besides being generally related to HPC.

I don't see why you couldn't make linuxemu portable, Ron did something
similar to run CNK binaries on Bluegene.

john

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Bence Fábián <begnoc@gmail.com> wrote:
> maybe it would be worthwhile to look into XCPU:
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> http://xcpu.sourceforge.net/
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> 2013/3/8 Paolo P. Martino <paolo@mudrast.info>
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>> Hello all,
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>> I am studying for a MSc in High Performance Computing at the Edinburgh
>> University, UK.
>> As part of my dissertation project, I was thinking to use Plan 9 as
>> compute node for ARM-based clusters.
>> My idea is to "port" the ideas of Plan 9 on Bluegene to ARM.
>> I have a couple of questions:
>> 1) How is the status of linuxemu? Does it work only on x86 or is it
>> portable? This because of MPI/OpenMP/FORTRAN widely used in High Performance
>> Computing.
>> 2) Is someone already working to port Plan 9 on Exynos5/Cortex A15
>> processors?
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>> I'm still checking with my university if I can use this project also for
>> the GSoC 2013.
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>> Thank you for your time,
>> Paolo P. Martino
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