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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. Re:Plan 9? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yep, that's what the OS is named after. I think this would have been a much cooler mascot though.

  2. Bah...... by segedunum · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The real questions of any relevance are:

    1. Can it run Linux?
    2. Is there going to be a Beowulf cluster?
    3. Is this actually a machine you can run Vista on?

  3. Re:About the plan by jshriverWVU · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Noticed that the Inferno environment can even run via a browser plugin. I can envision Google looking into this as an option for a Google OS. Browser plugin that enables a quasi-VM on the system for cross-platform applications.