xcpu is cool, but it doesn't really have anything to do with either of his questions besides being generally related to HPC.
I don't see why you couldn't make linuxemu portable, Ron did something similar to run CNK binaries on Bluegene. john On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Bence Fábián <[email protected]> wrote: > maybe it would be worthwhile to look into XCPU: > > http://xcpu.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > 2013/3/8 Paolo P. Martino <[email protected]> > >> Hello all, >> >> I am studying for a MSc in High Performance Computing at the Edinburgh >> University, UK. >> As part of my dissertation project, I was thinking to use Plan 9 as >> compute node for ARM-based clusters. >> My idea is to "port" the ideas of Plan 9 on Bluegene to ARM. >> I have a couple of questions: >> 1) How is the status of linuxemu? Does it work only on x86 or is it >> portable? This because of MPI/OpenMP/FORTRAN widely used in High Performance >> Computing. >> 2) Is someone already working to port Plan 9 on Exynos5/Cortex A15 >> processors? >> >> I'm still checking with my university if I can use this project also for >> the GSoC 2013. >> >> Thank you for your time, >> Paolo P. Martino >> >
