SGI originally developed a SWP for MIPS that was done by John Ruttenberg. That code was never open-sourced as it had some copyright issues. But SGI later sold a copy of that source to Reservoir, which is what they are referring to. For the IA64 target (which is very different, e.g. has rotating registers), a separate SWP was written at SGI, which was open-sourced, and that was improved by others as Sun mentions. Pathscale also did a separate SWP for MIPS.
-----Original Message----- From: Yonghong Yan [mailto:ya...@rice.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 10:36 PM To: Sun Chan Cc: open64-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Open64-devel] open64 on FreeBSD ia64 (Itanium2) On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 22:27 -0700, Sun Chan wrote: > the swp from sgi is for Mips. Much work was done by ICT and Tsinghua > to get swp work reasonably good for IA64. I don't know of blackbird > from Reservoir lab. Can you elaborate? i only get this information from their website, nothing in details. looks like this also mentioned in wikipedia open64 entry. (you may want to correct them). > The swp from SGI was not well tuned for IA64 (I guess I am the only > one involved in this swp through all the phases and transition of ia64 > in open64, i.e. trust me :-)) > definitely trust you guys. i am only curious when Reservoir lab mentioning this and think this is not opensource. I am glad that it is in there and you guys are supporting this. Thanks for your clearifying! > Sun > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Yonghong Yan <ya...@rice.edu> wrote: > > concerning IA64, is the software pipeliner from SGI included in open64? > > I know the the blackbird from Reservoir lab has it. This is the big part > > of the IA64 story. > > > > > > -- > > Yonghong Yan > > DH 3051 > > 713-348-5860 > > ya...@rice.edu > > > > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 15:03 -0700, Shin-Ming Liu wrote: > >> Besides HP and University of Houston, Tsinghua University in Beijing > >> is very active in OpenMP development. > >> > >> - Shin > >> > >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:52 AM, 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. 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