Supercomputing with FreeBSD?

[Unga]

--- On Mon, 6/23/08, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:

> From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no>
> Subject: Re: Supercomputing with FreeBSD?
> To: "Michael Vince" <mv at thebeastie.org>
> Cc: "Unga" <unga888 at yahoo.com>, freebsd-chat at freebsd.org
> Date: Monday, June 23, 2008, 8:40 PM
> Michael Vince <mv at thebeastie.org> writes:
> > Yes I remember when Nvidia posted that post so they
> could better
> > support their hardware on FreeBSD, but at least a few
> FreeBSD
> > developers slammed the Nvidia poster for reasons that
> appeared to me
> > to be quite unreasonable.
> 
> The only people who slammed it were those who had no clue
> what it was
> all about.  Several of the features nVidia requested are
> being worked on
> by those who do.
> 

Its finally very good to note people who know how to do it are being working on it.

At a time Linux is either fading or struggling on desktop, and at a time Linux developers have to beg for OEMs for open source drivers that they never get, it is the undeniable responsibility of the FreeBSD developers who know how to clear those issues to clear it and make the infrastructure ready for OEMs to develop drivers for FreeBSD. 

Success of the FreeBSD based desktop depends on the availability of drivers direct from OEMs, ie, from those who have the specs for it. Its up to the OEMs to decide whether to open source the drivers or not. Its only the BSDs can offer this freedom of choice to OEMs, not definitely Linux, which legally demands them to open source only.

Another importance of this is, gaming developers are increasingly voice for 64-bit operating systems. Top end game developers find maximum 4GB RAM is a thing of the past, they need very much more.

Things that nVidia requested are not only for nVidia, I can remember either Open Sound System developers or Jack developers also mentioned they are also handicapped with non-availability of such features. 

Good luck for those guys who work on the requirements highlighted by nVidia and get them soon out with FreeBSD 7.X and/or FreeBSD 8.0.

Best Regards
Unga