Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:47:42 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: g95 as a system fortran compiler? Message-ID: <20091221134742.GA51919@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <86y6kwpit1.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <d873d5be0912201647t25796ffdidb17524368e46900@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.LSU.1.99.0912211136400.7608@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <86y6kwpit1.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:18:02PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> writes: > > Anton has been working with me and really has been trying to get > > (upstream) attention. With FreeBSD being a niche OS and Itanium > > going the way of the Alpha and the Dodo [...] > > Don't write it off just yet... although it will probably never see > widespread use in commodity hardware, it seems to be doing quite well in > the scientific computing sector. top 500, NOV-2009, 6 ia64 systems: 6 entries found. Rank Site System Cores Rmax Rpeak 75 NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS United States SGI Altix 1.5/1.6/1.66 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband SGI 13824 66.57 82.94 82 Leibniz Rechenzentrum Germany Altix 4700 1.6 GHz SGI 9728 56.52 62.26 86 Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) France NovaScale 5160, Itanium2 1.6 GHz, Quadrics Bull SA 9968 52.84 63.8 91 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base/DoD ASC United States Altix 4700 1.6 GHz SGI 9216 51.44 58.98 118 Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) France Novascale 3045, Itanium2 1.6 GHz, Infiniband Bull SA 7680 42.13 49.15 490 Government Classified United States Cluster Platform 6000 rx1620, Itanium2 1.6 GHz, Quadrics Hewlett-Packard 4096 20.45 26.21 Warwick Uni have ia64 HPC system: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/csc/centre/news/itanium_solutions_alliance (actually it reminds me, I wanted to get in touch with them and ask some datails about their ia64 system). Apparently there's even Itanium® Solutions Alliance: http://www.itaniumsolutions.org/alliance Sounds like a good place to approach with fbsd on ia64 projects.. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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