Hello, I more or less started that project with a white paper early in 2011 so may be able to help. NIX was inspired by what we learned from the Blue Gene work and other Plan 9 work sponsored by DOE FAST-OS, which ran from 2005-2011. During those years, DOE FAST-OS sponsored the amd64 compiler, k10 kernel, blue gene port, and NIX, to name a few things. I was at both LANL and SNL over that time period.
A group of us spent May of 2011 at lsub getting the initial NIX system to work. It was a very productive month :-) The group at lsub were as good as it gets, and then we had jmk and Charles there too. Quite the Dream Team. What would you like to know? I also have an initial broken port to 9front if you'd like to try to bring it to life. ron On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 9:13 PM Andreas.Elding via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone has any experience using the NIX HPC environment? > Traditionally, there's a scheduler that keeps track of the resources in the > system, what nodes are busy and with which jobs, how much ram is in use and > such. > > I'm finding very sparse information on the NIX project, so I turn here to ask > if anyone has actually used it and can share some details? > > The site with the most information on it seems to be https://lsub.org/nix/ > but the research papers that I have found there are not too detailed (perhaps > I've only found previews?). > > Any extra information would be appreciated. > ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T7692a612f26c8ec5-M8ef22bb846390d0a7478c0c9 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
