A GNU High Performance Computing Initiative?

["Scott Robert Ladd" <scott at coyotegulch dot com>]

Hello, all!

I've been discussing OpenMP with Steven Bosscher, one of the developers of
the g95-gcc Fortran 95 compiler. He brought up an interesting idea:

> It would certainly be a great thing to have some kind of "GNU High
> Performance Computing Initiative" with some relevant sub-projects, e.g.
> - OpenMP for GCC (though IMHO auto-SIMD'izing is more important...)
> - GNU MPI
> - GNU basic clustering tools

I asked him about bringing the idea up before the gcc community at large,
since any such effort would be tightly-tied to the GNU compilers. He agreed,
and so here it is: an idea.

I would very much like to see a GNU MPI implementation, plus GPL'd tools for
clustering. Given the growing interest in supercomputing and parallel
programming, I think now is a good time to begin.

Considered comments are always welcome.

..Scott

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