[Barrelfish-users] [Barrelfish] Port of existing applications to Barrelfish

[Simon Peter]

Hi Zeus,

Glad to hear the Nanox port is doing well.

Regarding POSIX: We had decided early on not to worry about extensive 
POSIX support, to allow us to investigate alternative application 
interfaces. Due to this, the support is still very slim.

However, I am currently porting the postgres database server, which 
requires a lot of POSIX and thus have a changeset in a private branch 
that adds quite a bit of functionality, including atexit() and 
gettimeofday(). If you're interested, I might be able to make it 
available to you. It will go in the next release.

I'm not aware of a tool that maintains Makefile to Hakefile 
relationships. However, it is possible to just use your application's 
build system. I do this with postgres, which uses Autoconf.

Best regards,
Simon

On 09.05.2011 16:46, Zeus Gómez Marmolejo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to give you an update on what we are doing at the
> Barcelona Supercomputing Center. We have ported the Nanox runtime (
> http://nanos.ac.upc.edu/ ) to Barrelfish. Together with the Mercurium
> compiler provides support for running OpenMP, StarSs and other parallel
> task-based programming models. Nanox is written in C++, using extensive
> use of templates, inheritance and other language features. Although we
> needed C++ exception support in Barrelfish, we managed finally to
> rewrite the code and not use them.
>
> We are currently working in porting GASNet (
> http://gasnet.cs.berkeley.edu/ ) to Barrelfish in order to make use of
> the parallelism that Nanox can provide. GASNet is a communication
> interface that is multiplatform and has a lot of backends which provide
> an efficient way of communicating among types of networks/memory interfaces.
>
> When porting these apps, we found some difficulties. There are some
> posix semantics that we didn't find them implemented. Like atexit() or
> gettimeofday(), which is important for profiling. Do you have any way of
> doing this?
>
> On the other hand, to maintain the ported applications, we need to keep
> an updated version of the Hakefile, which in turn has the compiler Flags
> and the object list and so. Do you have any tool that may read a
> Makefile and keep the Hakefile updated?
>
> Many thanks for all.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> --
> Zeus Gómez Marmolejo
> Barcelona Supercomputing Center
> PhD student
> http://www.bsc.es
>
>
>
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