On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 1:12 PM Kurt H Maier via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote:
> Which architecture and OS did they wind up with? I was part of the team > that went on to administer the Coral systems, which were linux on POWER > 9+. Even the early-stage bringup loaders were linux systems. I > remember they had to ship a couple x86 systems anyway, because Mellanox > wouldn't make a POWER build of UFM. Everything in HPC is a linux now, at least all the top 500 systems ... as for architecture, it's interesting to see the Top 1 machine moving from Power to whatever tianhe was to ARM to x86 again ... and my vague memory is that the early riken were sparc before riken moved to ARM? Somebody want to confirm or deny this? Once HPC was able to fix on Linux, it unlocked the door to using different architectures.. That was kind of nice. I was sorry to see that Plan 9 did not work out, but at least Linux did work out, especially considering the two-year period in the late 90s where DoD wanted us all to run Windows/NT. Not kidding. > I always thought NIX would have been a good fit for Xeon Phi MICs, since > part of the bringup involved shipping an entire linux system to the card > for booting anyway. I agree with you. Some part of the NIX ideas were inspired, if that's the word, from the Intel ideas of the 2008 or so period. By the way, thanks also to Gorka, for arranging my time at lsub in 2011; and Enrique, for a lot of nice work getting NIX going. It was a great month with great people. I did just notice this, https://code.google.com/archive/p/nix-os/wikis/GettingStarted.wiki, which would let you build nix and try it out. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T7692a612f26c8ec5-M2fcac096d866e068dddfee56 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
