ron minnich wrote:
In the HPC world, there is lots of conservatism. There is an editor at
LANL, named Fred, written in Fortran, that has been in use for longer
than most of you have been alive. Until very recently, it was a
required part of any HPC system.
So, we're doing a binary compatibility module so we can run code
compiled with the hot IBM compilers like XLC and XLF.
ron
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? 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?
Steven Vormwald
