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
It is not about a windowing system... Do you really think that Blue Gene is a desktop computer?
It is about having a OS for concurrent computing.
Plan 9 could be very capable of being the perfect desktop OS, IMHO... jejeje... But yes, people like windows, beryl and those things... I agree...
I am just saying that what matters isn't the gui it runs... Is what it does better than the rest of OOSS.