From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 27 11:33:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09187 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:33:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from naur.cs.wvu.edu (naur.csee.wvu.edu [157.182.194.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09078 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:32:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfrasnel@csee.wvu.edu) Received: (from dfrasnel@localhost) by naur.cs.wvu.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA19709 for ports@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:30:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Frasnelli Message-Id: <199807271830.OAA19709@naur.cs.wvu.edu> Subject: Ports category submission To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:30:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings, I would like to suggest a new ports category for programs, libraries, compilers, etc. designed for usage in parallel computational clusters. I noticed while CVSUP'ing the ports collection yesterday that a port of MPI (MPICH, specifically) has been added, but under the category "net". As a category name, I offer "distributed" or "parallel" as a suggestion. Contents should include (for example) PVM (http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/) OOMPI (http://www.cse.nd.edu/~lsc/research/oompi/) MPI (http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/ - already ported) POVRAY patched for PVM (URL for this?) Any software distributed shared memory system, parallel compiler (mpC), RC5 client(?), etc. A good project would be to take the Beowulf cluster control software and port it to FreeBSD (sans the Linux kernel mods, of course). I apologize for the brevity of this post, but I'm doing Real Work at the moment and don't have time to compose a lengthy RFC on the proposed category :-) Best regards, Daniel J. Frasnelli To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message