From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 21 13:48:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F362D106568B for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:48:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC7E8FC1C for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.93]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NMibv-0000ao-SQ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:48:24 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by seis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NMibu-0004zu-O8; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:47:43 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBLDlgMO051960; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:47:42 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBLDlgoB051959; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:47:42 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:47:42 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Message-ID: <20091221134742.GA51919@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <86y6kwpit1.fsf@ds4.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <86y6kwpit1.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Gerald Pfeifer , Anton Shterenlikht , "b. f." Subject: Re: g95 as a system fortran compiler? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:48:26 -0000 On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:18:02PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Gerald Pfeifer 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