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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2007-06-18
Come on...
Programming a new Window Manager/Desktop enviroment for X-Window is a terrible experience... And yes, APIs make life easier for those using KDE... But to get KDE working... heh... You have to know *a lot" about the inner workings, workouts and bugs of X-Window.
Plan 9 is quite simple, you don't need to know how a lot of stuff to get things done...
And there are several choices for those running Plan 9. We can run rio or acme if we like it... we can rio on rio, acme on rio... no gui at all... or we can implement a new one (Actually there are some new ideas about it)...
Anyway... The GUI isn't the priority. Plan 9 is not a geek-chick magnet... It is a computer science enviroment that can be a great os for those who enjoy it, like me and some hundreds of persons...
Once you get it, Plan 9 isn't complex... Au contraire....
Of course, it doesn't mean its pretty
(But I happen to like it and, in general, plan 9 users like it)(I also like KDE, good stuff it is)(Gnome is nice too! Not for me... But good stuff too)
But, the post is about having plan 9 running on a supercomputer. That is great. Does somebody know if they got Inferno running over that Plan 9 installation?