Reading old emails is always interesting. Turns out I was in
discussions with a company building a CPU that was a very good fit to
NIX. I was trying to get that company to ship a research system to
lsub.
They were initially very agreeable but, finally, stopped talking about
Plan 9 on their system.
> 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.
Thank you for the response, it was quite an interesting read. Unfortunately,
I'm not a great coder, so I can't take you up on that offer. You mentioned that
GPUs took over,
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 projec
OK, I got curious about when NIX started to happen. Basically, in 2011
or so, we had wrapped up the Blue Gene work, the last Blue Gene
systems having been shipped, and jmk and I were thinking about what to
do; there was still DOE money left.. We decided to revive the k10 work
from 2005 or so. We ha
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
