El 2019-02-15 02:29, Eric Bavier escribió: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:24:10 -0800 > Quiliro Ordonez <quil...@riseup.net> wrote: > >> El 2019-02-13 13:39, quil...@riseup.net escribió: >> > This supercomputer is available for investigational use. >> > https://hpc.yachay.gob.ec >> > Do you think it is worth it for the Guix project? I can ask for >> > availability. >> >> I have scheduled a visit for thursday 21st. Is there anything you >> suggest I should ask them for? >> > > Interesting. > > Do you have an HPC project/application in mind? Several Guix > contributors have had success in deploying Guix onto clusters and using > Guix for their workflows. > > Just a few observations with regard to the system's hardware: Using the > system's Nvidia Tesla GPUs might be difficult from core Guix, you'd > likely need to package cudatoolkit yourself. Ricardo was going to add > Infiniband support to our OpenMPI package soon. As far as I can see, > that website doesn't mention the processor architecture being used. > But this website > https://openpowerfoundation.org/blogs/ecuador-supercomputing-yachay-openpower/ > mentions the supercomputer is using OpenPOWER processors. If that's > correct, there'd be a bit more work to do to get Guix to target it, > since we don't support that architecture yet, though I recall a few > users on IRC asking about it in relation to the Talos workstation, > iirc. > > You could maybe also bring this up on guix-...@gnu.org > > `~Eric
Thank you for your message Eric. I do not have the knowledge to hack on Guix much...yet. And by now you can probably can see I have no application or project. I was just thinking that it might be interesting or useful for Guix. And that we could make a proposal to the university that may be advantageous to both the Guix project and to them. If you have any proposals, I could tell them about it.
