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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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by poundsmack on Mon 18th Jun 2007 22:30 UTC

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thats cool and all. but why?

i mean plan9 is a neet os witha lot of cool features and cool ways of doing things but...why?

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by Thom_Holwerda on Mon 18th Jun 2007 22:38 in reply to "...?"

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A better question is... Why did you post that comment?

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by poundsmack on Mon 18th Jun 2007 23:19 in reply to "RE: ...?"

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because I am genuinly corious as to what purpose IBM/Bell-Labs has for this port. I am not critisising its efforts, just want to know what will become of them

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by butters on Tue 19th Jun 2007 00:37 in reply to "...?"

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Because Plan9 is a clustering OS and Blue Gene/L is a clustering supercomputer. UNIX runs on clusters by means of MOSIX and other technologies, but the bottom line is that UNIX was designed to let lots of tasks share a single computer, whereas Plan9 was designed to (among other things) let lots of computers share one or many tasks.

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by Flatland_Spider on Tue 19th Jun 2007 03:46 in reply to "RE: ...?"

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How does Plan9 compare to VMS and its clustering abilities?

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