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From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gma...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:09:04 -0700

On 4/26/07, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@gma...> wrote:

> That'd be a question for the HPC people; ron, do you miss complex types in 9c?

No, but you're not going to like the reason. AFAIK nobody misses it,
because there may not be a single HPC app in widespread use that could
be run on Plan 9 today. We've been looking. Roman knows more than I do
on this issue.

But the apps I've found to date need Fortran, Python, C++, and,
occasionally C; and, on top of that, need a library or two. Oh, and
did I mention, OpenMP, and of course you need an MPI.

This one is instructive:
http://www.llnl.gov/asc/computing_resources/purple/rfp/benchmarks/limited/umt/umt1.2.readme.bm.html

Hence my concerns re Python, but that one is on the way to being solved.

We're trying to work this one :-)

ron