Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Jun 2007 21:54 UTC, submitted by ericvh
A team comprised of members from Bell-Labs, IBM Research, Sandia National Labs, and Vita Nuova has completed a port of Plan 9 to the Blue Gene supercomputer. Plan 9 kernels are running on both the compute nodes and the I/O nodes and the Ethernet, Torus, Collective Network, Barrier Network, and Management network are all supported. Screenshots are available on the development blog, and a live-demo will be attempted during the USENIX poster session.
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2006-04-21
Could be (have been?) interesting, but there have been several problems with it. Not least, as appositely shown in the screenshot, the intermingling of policy (or perhaps too much policy) with mechanism in the window system. An OS for the 1990s should come with a GUI, but to become an OS for the 21st century it needs to have the kind of flexibility in interface design that the X Window System provides.