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From: dwa@sdcc12.UUCP (Don Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.lang.mod2
Subject: Any M2 developers out there?
Message-ID: <448@sdcc12.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 11:01:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  2 11:01:58 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Sep-85 07:44:55 EDT
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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Keywords: Cray

We are in the process of installing an NSF-funded national supercomputer
center here at UCSD. The first processor will be a Cray XMP-48 (4
processors, 48 Megawords of memory, each word being 64 bits wide). We
hope to add new machines as funding and the state of technology allow.

The initial complement of software comes from the Labs (LLL and LANL)
and it is heavily FORTRAN oriented, though there is a version of Pascal,
a version of LISP and a version of C (the latter rather buggy and
limited). For my own personal reasons - so that I could use it for a
course that I teach - I'd like to have a Modula-2 compiler on the XMP.
Is there anyone out there in netland who has some experience with
installing M2 compilers who would be interested in taking this on? The
XMP is, in many (but not all) ways a direct descendent of the old CDC
6600 for which the early ETH compiler was written, so it might be
possible to adapt that. 

The San Diego Supercomputer Center will be bringing on remote sites in
the first half of 1986, including Berkeley and Stanford with 56KBit/sec
service. SDSC does not pay for the development of software, but it has
considerable flexibility about the rules governing such development and
does not require that the software be placed in the public domain in
some circumstances. Anyone interested should contact me for particulars.

-don anderson
-director of academic computing, UCSD
619-452-2628
OAC B-028 UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093