Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-19 Thread Fernan Bolando
On 11/6/08, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . > > All credit to jmk, ericvh, and charles for this fantastic test run and > the existence of this new kernel. > > Plan is to double it just a few times until we hit 65536 or so. Then > the f

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-19 Thread Uriel
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:53 AM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . > > All credit to jmk, ericvh, and charles for this fantastic test run and > the existence of this new kernel. What new kernel? > Plan is to double it just a few times u

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-11 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Congrats !!! Plan9 on most interesting HW ! :) 2008/11/6 ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . > > All credit to jmk, ericvh, and charles for this fantastic test run and > the existence of this new kernel. > > Plan is to double it just a few time

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-06 Thread Federico G. Benavento
congrats! -- Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-06 Thread erik quanstrom
>> not yet. coraid is responsible for ~4k cores >> running plan 9 right now. of course the maximum >> concentration in one place is jus a few hundred. > > Were does this show up in their product line? sr appliances. - erik

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-06 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 06:54 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > So how many cores is that for each member of the > > Plan 9 community? :-) On a slightly more serious > > note, would it be terribly naive to guess that > > there would be more cores running Plan 9 in that > > machine than there are thr

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> So how many cores is that for each member of the > Plan 9 community? :-) On a slightly more serious > note, would it be terribly naive to guess that > there would be more cores running Plan 9 in that > machine than there are throughout the rest of the > world? not yet. coraid is responsible f

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-06 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:53:25PM -0800, ron minnich wrote: > Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . > > All credit to jmk, ericvh, and charles for this fantastic test run and > the existence of this new kernel. Just chiming in to say very nicely done, congratulations, && thanks f

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-06 Thread C H Forsyth
>Any plan to run it for end users? "Sole purpose of visit" as someone supposedly quipped in answer to the question on the US entry form: "Is it your intention to overthrow the government of the United States?" (that response is variously attributed, although both Evelyn Waugh and Gilbert Harding

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-06 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
That's great. Any plan to run it for end users? On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Bruce Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's nearly as many cores as I have gates! Very good indeed - just > don't say "Hooter's Girls" to Mr Van Hensbergen. > > brucee > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:53 AM, ron minni

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-06 Thread Bruce Ellis
That's nearly as many cores as I have gates! Very good indeed - just don't say "Hooter's Girls" to Mr Van Hensbergen. brucee On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:53 AM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . > > All credit to jmk, ericvh, and charles f

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-05 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . congratulations to everyone involved. Obama wins, and now this. life is great!

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-05 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 5, 2008, at 8:53 PM, ron minnich wrote: Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . Cool, congrats. Now to see Plan 9 run on HAL :-P -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkkScyoACgkQuv7AVNQDs

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-05 Thread Noah Evans
Be careful what you wish for ;) On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Brian L. Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . > > I'll echo the congratulations. > >> Plan is to double it just a few times until we hit 65536 or so. Then >> the fun begins: turn

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-05 Thread Brian L. Stuart
> Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . I'll echo the congratulations. > Plan is to double it just a few times until we hit 65536 or so. Then > the fun begins: turning on all cores, so we get to > 262144 cpus. So how many cores is that for each member of the Plan 9 community? :

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-05 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really cool! Are you going to talk about this @SuperComputing? I was going to talk to a bof but they did not accept the paper: "Running one million things". Somehow the schedulers had more cred. ron

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Really cool! Are you going to talk about this @SuperComputing? Thanks, Roman. On Nov 5, 2008, at 5:53 PM, ron minnich wrote: Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . All credit to jmk, ericvh, and charles for this fantastic test run and the existence of this new kernel. Plan is

Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-05 Thread David Leimbach
Congrats! That's fantastic! On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:53 PM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . > > All credit to jmk, ericvh, and charles for this fantastic test run and > the existence of this new kernel. > > Plan is to double it just

[9fans] on a slightly more fun note

2008-11-05 Thread ron minnich
Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. . All credit to jmk, ericvh, and charles for this fantastic test run and the existence of this new kernel. Plan is to double it just a few times until we hit 65536 or so. Then the fun begins: turning on all cores, so we get to 262144 cpus. Boo