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

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 05:12:16PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> 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.

A lovely rant with some relevent points, but 100% irrelevent to the fact
that this thread is probably the majority of traffic this list has seen.

-- Brooks
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