Mailing list freebsd-hpc@freebsd.org is being retired

[O. Hartmann]

On 11/05/10 15:31, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 05:25:37PM -0700, Eric De La Cruz Lugo wrote:
>> Where this HPC topic will be handled? freebsd-performance@?, we should
>> ask to Brook Davis.
>
> Most things could be handled on -performance.  Other things would be a
> good fit for -net or -hackers.  Over all the list has never had any
> traffic so while it seemed like a good idea at the time, I don't see any
> real value in keeping it around.  If work and discussion picks up
> elsewhere to the point that it's off topic or distracting we can alwasy
> recreate the list.
>
> -- Brooks

@performance is a list on which people post when problems or tuning 
potential issues arise with the OS itself. As I understand 'HPC', this 
list is more related to the 'performance' used in a scientific manner. 
We do not have a list tuning, so I would put hings from @performance 
rather into @tuning. Well, it's hard to express my point of view an this 
foreign language, so I hope I could make clear what I think.

On the other hand, if @HPC is related to a more scientific view of 
'performance', then it also can be retired since FreeBSD doe not play 
any role in scientific computing any more. No HPC compilers, not GPGPU 
support anywhere. Approximately ten years ago, when my former institute 
used FreeBSD as a HPC platform, we used NAGs math libraries and 
compilers natively offered for FreeBSD. With the dawn of the AMD/Intel 
amd64 architecture FreeBSD got more and more insignificant. Even the 
lack of 64Bit Linuxulator capabilities and therefore the inability of 
using Linux compilers and GPGPU software widended this gap.

O. Hartmann