From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 and PR In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 08:39:06 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d4f1c4e0-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote: > > we're trying to get the 9grid ready for general use but it is hard to get > > these things going > > What's the reason(s) you'd point out that in your opinnion make it hard > to do so? using Plan 9 for anything loses mind share ("What? Not Globus? Not Linux? You must be wrong!"). We're trying to resolve in a nice way the issues of authentication without having "the Globus user" for example. There's little programming environment support. Plan 9 is ideal for grid stuff, but there are bits missing that we need to get done. I have built a sample task bag file system using ramfs, and I did run a parallel app between here and Bell Labs and all the Plan 9 advantages helped a lot. The other problem is that right now 9grid is a "spare time" activity for all of us, so it is moving more slowly than we would like. ron