From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 22:29:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A8B237B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:29:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D223643E84 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:29:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g7L5TaSe015411; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:29:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:29:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Chan Fook Sheng Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to cluster a few FBSD together to get a larger memory space Message-ID: <20020821052936.GA97484@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Aug 21), Chan Fook Sheng said: > i wonder if it is possible to cluster a few FBSD boces together so > that a application can make use the shared memory and CPU power? > > I mean the app will see one virtual system consisting of aggregated > memory and cpu of all the systems. No; you actually don't want the memory to share, as the speed difference between RAM and the network is too great. As for sharing CPU, take a look at ports/net/pvm and net/npich. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message