g95 as a system fortran compiler?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:18:02PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer.com> writes:
> > Anton has been working with me and really has been trying to get 
> > (upstream) attention.  With FreeBSD being a niche OS and Itanium
> > going the way of the Alpha and the Dodo [...]
> 
> Don't write it off just yet...  although it will probably never see
> widespread use in commodity hardware, it seems to be doing quite well in
> the scientific computing sector.

top 500, NOV-2009, 6 ia64 systems:

6 entries found.
Rank	Site	System	Cores	Rmax	Rpeak

75	NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS
United States	SGI Altix 1.5/1.6/1.66 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband
SGI	13824	66.57	82.94

82	Leibniz Rechenzentrum
Germany	Altix 4700 1.6 GHz
SGI	9728	56.52	62.26

86	Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
France	NovaScale 5160, Itanium2 1.6 GHz, Quadrics
Bull SA	9968	52.84	63.8

91	Wright-Patterson Air Force Base/DoD ASC
United States	Altix 4700 1.6 GHz
SGI	9216	51.44	58.98

118	Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
France	Novascale 3045, Itanium2 1.6 GHz, Infiniband
Bull SA	7680	42.13	49.15

490	Government Classified
United States	Cluster Platform 6000 rx1620, Itanium2 1.6 GHz, Quadrics
Hewlett-Packard	4096	20.45	26.21


Warwick Uni have ia64 HPC system:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/csc/centre/news/itanium_solutions_alliance

(actually it reminds me, I wanted to get in touch with them
and ask some datails about their ia64 system).


Apparently there's even Itanium® Solutions Alliance:

http://www.itaniumsolutions.org/alliance

Sounds like a good place to approach with fbsd on ia64 
projects..

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