Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:05:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: Daniel Frasnelli <dfrasnel@csee.wvu.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports category submission Message-ID: <19980728020513.12094.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com>
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I was working on the SUIF compiler some time ago. Never got to find out how to add a dir to the PATH for a port :-(. I like this idea. I think there's even an NQS port in incoming, and if you take a look at SAL you'll find lots of surprises. Pedro. Daniel Frasnelli <dfrasnel@csee.wvu.edu> wrote: > > 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 > == --- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve ! http://www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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