Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:45:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Daniel Frasnelli <dfrasnel@csee.wvu.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports category submission Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807271945050.19376-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199807271830.OAA19709@naur.cs.wvu.edu>
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Daniel Frasnelli 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). Seconded. > > 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 > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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