Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene

["Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Steven Vormwald <sdvormwa@mtu.edu> wrote:
> Is there any (public) information about how plan 9 is/was being used on Blue
> Gene?  The only information I can find seems to be "press release"-type
> papers that just say that it runs on Blue Gene, but not what it was used for
> nor how it was setup and used.
>

The existing BG/L port was a prototype proof of concept.  It was not
done in a clean-room fashion and so large portions of it are not
releasable.  The proof of concept was done as part of a proposal to a
DOE funded project which just got under way.  As part of that project
which is funded for the next three years, we'll be doing a "clean"
port to the BG/P (which will be open sourced) along with using Plan 9
to explore large scale (tens of thousands of nodes) distributed
systems.  High level details are available off of the IBM Research
pages: http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/hare.index.html
-- more detailed information to come.

                -eric