Oh, U of Houston is another good partner choice. Extensive work on openMP and open64 Sun
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Sun Chan <sun.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > as far as I know, HP compiler team should be your natural partner. > That team has extensive experience in ia64, and is the official > compiler team inside HP for ia64 linux, I think. Tuning for ia64 needs > a lot of know how with the microarchitecture (having been part of the > ia64 compiler at Intel for some time), imho. > Sun > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <me...@bristol.ac.uk> > wrote: >> Hi >> >> I'm a lecturer in Solid Mechanics with Mech >> Eng Dept at University of Bristol, UK. >> My research interests are in computational >> mechanics. >> >> I'm preparing a proposal to EPSRC (Engineering >> and Physical Sciences Research Council - a major >> UK government funding body for engineering, >> including computer science and IT) under >> HPC software development call 2010/2011. >> Here's a link to the description of this call: >> http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/hpcsoftwaredev/Pages/default1.aspx >> >> I propose to develop an optimising compiler >> with MPI/OpenMP support for ia64 FreeBSD >> platform. Please see my justification at the end. >> >> PathScale (Christopher Bergstrom) expressed >> an interest in my proposal, in principle. >> >> NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group, nag.co.uk) - a major >> UK HPC player, who currently provide user support >> on HeCTOR (http://www.hector.ac.uk/), UK national >> supercomputer - have been very supportive so far. >> >> I'm writing to ask if Open64 team would be interested, >> in principle, to collaborate on this proposal. >> In any case I'd be very grateful for any feedback. >> >> >> Justification: >> >> ia64 accounts for only 5 system in the top500 >> list. This is mainly due to compliers unable >> to generate efficient code for VLIW (EPIC). >> (Of course, there are other issues to do >> with marketing, etc. but this in beyond the point). >> >> If such compiler, with MPI/OpenMP support, >> were available, this would >> significantly speed-up HPC on ia64 platform. >> >> In terms of scientific outputs - clearly >> all current HPC codes we use will benefit. >> However, some specific coding guidelines for >> ia64 might be developed to help the compiler >> produce efficient code. >> >> A specific engineering application, which >> will be used to benchmark performance >> is a set of multi-scale fracture codes >> we have at Bristol. The codes include >> a finite element part (floating point) and >> a cellular automata part (integer). I'm interested >> in simulating very large models, i.e. using >> large memories, as well as speeding up the >> execution. >> >> FreeBSD (or, for that matter *BSD systems) >> represent at the very least a viable alternative >> to linux. Things like better security >> and more predictable and systematic development >> and release schedule, and more permissible BSD >> licence (compared to GPLv3) might make FreeBSD more >> attractive for HPC in future. >> I think having an alternative to linux >> is beneficial to academia and HPC >> industry. >> >> many thanks >> anton >> >> >> -- >> Anton Shterenlikht >> Room 2.6, Queen's Building >> Mech Eng Dept >> Bristol University >> University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK >> Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 >> Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the >> Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share >> of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm >> _______________________________________________ >> Open64-devel mailing list >> Open64-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open64-devel >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Open64-devel mailing list Open64-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open64-devel
