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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
> 
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