From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:47:27 -0500 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <488B6EE7.3080100@mtu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <488B6EE7.3080100@mtu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene Topicbox-Message-UUID: f1f581e2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Steven Vormwald 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