On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 13:47 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Steven Vormwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Do you have any bits and pieces of the software ecosystem not readily available on Plan9 (dreadful things like a C++ compiler) covered by these funds or is your intention to use available Plan9 userland as-is? Thanks, Roman.
