| Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene |
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Group: comp.os.plan9 · Group Profile
Author: ron minnichron minnich Date: Jul 30, 2008 08:45
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Steven D. Vormwald mtu.edu> wrote:
> 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?
The latter. Build on Linux, run on Plan 9. For most users. Some users
have the time and willingness to try something new like Plan 9, most
have day jobs and just want to run their code. So we make it as easy
for them as we can.
> 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?
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Cross-compile.
ron
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