On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008-Feb-29, at 22:02 , Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > > > It will no doubt be useful to us folks doing work for the gov't. They > > DOE has lots of apps written for GCC or Fortran -- while there may be > > other methods of accommodating these applications, having them "just > > work" with GCC (particularly if the GCC fortran could be part of the > > port) would help us a lot. It could also serve as a baseline for > > performance/efficiency comparisons with other methodologies such as > > linuxemu, etc. > > But none of this code will "just work" on Plan 9 (especially the > Fortran code), so what's the point? >
We are well aware of the peeling onion effect - it is just a step. Many of the HPC apps will "just work" with a minimum of fuss, others will require a considerable bit of fuss. To add to Ron's MPQC example, I'll just through out the HPCC benchmark suite: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpcc/ -eric
