That might well be the case. There are projects underway to develop Plan 9 as a platform for massively parallel computing and I expect we'll have several talks on the subject at the workshop.
Sape > About that, I'm currently working in the computing grid field, > notably the use of grids among the (Earth) science community. I'm > personally convinced that the way to go would be to build on a sane > distributed base, like Plan9 but it's not at all the situation at the > moment. > > The biggest structures are based on Linux (clusters or PCs) augmented > with some middleware (such as gLite, or globus). The whole thing seems > quite bloated to me from the beginning and it's getting even more > complicated as the middleware developpers are trying to fit the needs of > the different scientific communities. > > Now to my point: I'm slowly trying to hint ppl at Plan9 but it's not > easy since: > -I'm not "big" in the middle > -I don't have (yet) such a strong experience in Plan9 (only played with > it a bit and installed a standalone cpu server) > -there is no (afaik) example yet of a plan9 grid where one can submit > distributed jobs, to convince ppl. Although it seems to me plan9 would > be the best platform for that and hence would require way less work to > obtain some elegant solutions than on any other framwork. > > So my question is: do you think that Workshop would be the right > occasion to demonstrate Plan9 to the grid ppl or is it too soon to > convince of its possible advantages as a computing grid platform? Is > it worth trying to get some of these ppl to go there? > Or am I completely mistaken on what this workshop is about? > > Any thoughts on this are welcome :) > > Cheers, > Mathieu. > > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:15:28AM -0400, Sape Mullender wrote: >> We have started preparations to host the Second very International Workshop >> on Plan 9 at Bell Labs MH in December of this year, almost certainly >> Monday December 3 and Tuesday December 4. >> >> Preparations are still underway, but we hope to post the official >> announcement soon. >> >> Sape >> > > -- > GPG key on subkeys.pgp.net: > > KeyID: | Fingerprint: > 683DE5F3 | 4324 5818 39AA 9545 95C6 09AF B0A4 DFEA 683D E5F3 > --