From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 17:17:37 2010 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 EAB8A106564A; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:17:37 +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 AA49A8FC14; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:17:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsd.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.59] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ObcvI-0002EF-C2; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:17:36 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ObcvI-0005cy-7k; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:17:36 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o6LHHaOb067939; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:17:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o6LHHZ9L067938; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:17:35 +0100 (BST) (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: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:17:35 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100721171735.GA67880@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Subject: HPC on FreeBSD - proposal to EPSRC 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: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:17:38 -0000 This post is primarily directed at people in the UK. EPSRC UK (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) issued HPC Software Development Call for 2010/11. From their site: "This call invites proposals for High Performance Computing (HPC) software development to enable science and engineering." For full details see: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Calls/2010/HPCSoftwareDevelopmentCall.pdf I indend to draft a proposal for this call. I'm particularly interested in making HPC on FreeBSD ia64 a reality. Briefly, I want to propose development of an optimising MPI/OpenMP C/c++/Fortran compiler for a fbsd/ia64 cluster environment, probably based on llvm/clang. If you are in UK academia and want to participate, or if you are in business and might consider supporting a proposal of this sort (e.g. a letter of support) please get in touch directly. If you have other FreeBSD based ideas suitable for this call - I'd also love to hear. yours anton -- 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