From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 27 18:52:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07277 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:52:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chama.eece.unm.edu (chama.eece.unm.edu [129.24.24.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07250 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:52:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbader@eece.unm.edu) Received: from jalapeno.eece.unm.edu (jalapeno.eece.unm.edu [129.24.24.88]) by chama.eece.unm.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA13949; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:51:44 -0600 (MDT) Received: by jalapeno.eece.unm.edu (SMI-8.6) id TAA16371; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:51:44 -0600 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:51:44 -0600 Message-Id: <199807280151.TAA16371@jalapeno.eece.unm.edu> From: "David A. Bader" To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, dfrasnel@csee.wvu.edu cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, dbader@eece.unm.edu Subject: Re: Ports category submission (fwd) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Daniel writes: > I would like to suggest a new ports category for programs, libraries, > compilers, etc. designed for usage in parallel computational clusters. I think this is a great idea! I'm the maintainer of the "MPI" port (mpich), and would volunteer to help out in any way with developing this category. The LinuxFolks have a similar distribution called ExtremeLinux which is a descendent of the Beowulf project; and includes all of the tools necessary to make a parallel cluster. As a category, I vote for any of: "hpc" (high performance computing), "parallel" (parallel processing), or "cluster" (cluster computing). -david P.S. I'm looking for graduate students in parallel computing http://www.eece.unm.edu/~dbader/jobs.html -- David A. Bader, Ph.D. Office: 505-277-6724 Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering FAX: 505-277-1439 EECE Building University of New Mexico dbader@eece.unm.edu Albuquerque, NM 87131 http://www.eece.unm.edu/~dbader To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message