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Plan 9 Running on Blue Gene

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the buttonfly-or-zipper dept.

gholmer writes "Eric Van Hensbergen reports that Plan 9 has been successfully booted on IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer. A live demo will be attempted during a poster session at this year's Usenix. There is also the obligatory Space Glenda picture."

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  1. About the plan by NeoTerra · · Score: 4, Funny

    What happened to Plans 1-8? And could you make a module that corrupts the output, and call it Plan B? I think it may be a little too early to grasp exactly what the story is here. Where's my caffeine?

    1. Re:About the plan by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

      You laugh about such things. But I was the beta tester for Preparation G. Stuff was awful. But boy could I whistle really well after that.

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  2. Re:Am I the only one that thought of this Plan 9? by grahams · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes.

  3. Re:Yeah but... by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously it can - it is a supercomputer! (as long as you turn the Aero interface off of course).

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  4. No sale by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not buying a Blue Gene until they port AmigaOS to it, like God intended.

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  5. Is this a well disguised troll? by Critical+Facilities · · Score: 4, Funny
    From TFA

    The graphical programs displayed are: the mail announcer faces(1), the system statistics watcher stats(8), the text editor acme(1), the sky catalog scat(1), the image viewer
    I'm not sure I'm ready to check out any "graphical" items called scat.
  6. Re:Plan 9? by L33tminion · · Score: 4, Funny

    So that the Soviets can't do it first, obviously.

  7. Re:Yeah but... by narcolepticjim · · Score: 4, Funny

    Vista? Buddy, they have enough on their plate getting a Beowulf cluster of these strung together ...

  8. Re:Pretty cool by C0y0t3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Also I was beginning to think Slashdot was dying since I hardly come here anymore...

    ... but I see your comments ALL OVER Slashdot, Anonymous Coward. In fact you're probably THE most prolific user, certainly the most outspoken.