Distributed Java, Fortran, and ARM to X86 Cross Compilation

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Jan 202011
 

A very cool and strange thing (for me at least) has happened. Having spent a great deal of time digging through my Google analytic reports, I can say with certainty that my personal site traffic is on the rise. What’s most interesting to me is that a good portion of that new readership linked into my site from my corporate blog. Even more interesting, our corporate blog over at www.discursivelabs.com has far eclipsed the readership of my personal blog here at www.hunterdavis.com. As such, I thought I’d share the link to my newest article.

In the fifth article in our ongoing series on low power compilation clusters, things are really starting to get interesting. I run you through a distributed Java, Fortran, and ARM->X86-64 compilation using an updated set of scripts we created in our previous articles, as well as post an update on the real-world Pogoplug compilation cluster (hint: twice as fast).

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Writing Your Own Distributed Compilation System

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Jan 102011
 

As the title implies in our latest article over at Discursive Labs we walk you through the creation of a fully distributed compilation system (i.e. a fully federated system not based on DistCC, Sun’s DMAKE, or other existing distributed compilation tools). The scripts are available in the article and can be dropped into an existing compilation node or as a base for future development. While I have posted a few articles over at Discursive Labs since I last posted here, I thought this one in particular may be of interest to anyone wishing to make their own cluster for compilation or scientific computing. If you’re interested in cross-compiling, low power ARM clusters, virtual clusters or distributed computing and you’re not reading our continuing series then you should really catch up.

*UPDATE — These articles have been collected into the volume ‘Build Your Own Distributed Compilation Cluster’, read more at it’s information page here.

Active Compile on 6 Virtual Nodes

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Using the ARM Based PogoPlug as an X86-64 Compilation Cluster – An Article Series

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Dec 062010
 

Are you looking for something new and interesting to run on your Pogoplug after reading that last article on emulators? Ever considered using it to compile software that runs natively on your X86-64 machine? Did you even know this was a possibility?

On our corporate blog over at Discursive Labs, I’ve posted up the first in a new article series about creating an ARM based X86-64 cross-compiling cluster. For the first in the article series, we run you through the basic configuration, compilation, and toolchain creation for ARM to X86-64 compilation. In future articles we’ll discuss issues involved in library cross-compilation, sorting through “dependency hell”, adding new compilation nodes, and the benefits of using a low-power compilation cluster in your build and CIS processes. We’ll walk you through a full cross-compile of one of our beta software products, and all of its prerequisite libraries in detail.

As always, if you’re interested in beta testing any of our upcoming software, send an email to beta@discursivelabs.com.

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(Preview) – Sliders (beta) and Upcoming Beta Opportunities

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Nov 182010
 

First thanks to everyone who applied for beta status over at Discursive Labs. Your name is on the list and we’ve got an extra secret upcoming project that will be landing in your inbox soon :) . If anyone else is interested in becoming a beta tester, send us an email with “beta” in the subject line and we’ll get you on the list.

Also, on a completely separate note we’ve got another technology preview with an upcoming public beta called Sliders (beta). It’s a graphical, dynamically updating equation solving, graphing, and sharing application written in HTML5 and gRaphael. Preview it over at the Discursive Labs corporate blog.

Sliders (beta)

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Source Tree Visualizer Beta 2 Media Update with Images and Video

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Nov 082010
 

For those of you who are not on beta list over at Discursive Labs, this is the sort of thing you are missing out on. If you follow our corporate blog over at www.discursivelabs.com, you know that Source Tree Visualizer is an entirely new way to interact and understand the complexities of source control in a meaningful, intuitive way. Rooted in the most current research in computer graphics and visualization, Source Tree Visualizer may literally change the way you think about your source tree forever. Head on over to the Source Tree Visualizer media page and find out how Discursive Labs is bringing you a whole new kind of source tree visualization.

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The Benefits of Low Power Cluster Compilation (and Shameless Self-Promotion)

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Oct 122010
 

As many of you know, in my personal life I’m historically quite fond of low power and embedded processor systems. It’s somewhat ironic then, that in my professional life I spend most of my time programming for supercomputing clusters, or for the development of programs for supercomputing clusters. As most of you probably also know, I started a somewhat successful consulting and software development company earlier this year. This gives me a terrific amount of freedom when outfitting (and hiring) our developer and IT personnel. “Why then”, postulated I, “should I not apply my beloved low power processors to the development process of extremely large and complex systems?” Sounds crazy? Maybe not so much. Maybe not at all.

Read on at our corporate blog over at Discursive Labs

Wondering what I’ve been up too? Didn’t know we had a corporate blog over at Discursive Labs? Interested in working for or with a successful start-up? Head on over to DiscursiveLabs.com and get updated. Product videos, beta tests and teasers, customer testimonials and more coming soon :)

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