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Hi! This may be sort of an unusual request. Our group is seeking
support for establishing a supercomputer environment that allows
for creating and running programs in the C++ language.

Let me explain. We have an account on the Cray-YMP supercomputer
at the Un of Amsterdam, to do research on 3D image segmentation.
Originally we wanted to run C, but since our own local environment
is gradually drifting from C towards C++, we would also like to
run our C++ programs on the super.
For certain reasons we would like to have available a professional
commercially available environment, rather than a PD C++.
The people at the National Computer Facilities foundation (who
awarded us the grant for our account) are quite willing to help us
with the additional requirement, given that we can show that there
is a general interest to run C++ on supercomputers, perhaps even
more specifically an interest to run C++ on the Un of Amsterdam's
Cray-YMP.

My questions.
1) Are there people or institutions out there that can make
relevant statements on the desirability to run C++ or other object
oriented programming languages on supercomputers, preferably
supported by actual experiences?
2) Are there any groups with (current or future) accounts on the
Amsterdam facility that would also like to have C++ available?

Any responses will be highly appreciated. Thnx in advance, --Kees

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| Cornelis ("Kees"*) N. de Graaf       | tel: +31-30-506295         |
| Computer Vision Research Group       | fax: +31-30-513399         |
| Utrecht University Hospital          | e-mail: kees@cv.ruu.nl     |
| AZU E.02.222, Heidelberglaan 100     |    -or- graaf@cs.unc.edu   |
| 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands     | *) pronounce "case"        |
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