From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 23 12:11:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B788637B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:11:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00743; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:11:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id f0NKBO913181; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:11:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:11:23 -0500 (EST) To: Yoriaki FUJIMORI Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD run on UP1100? In-Reply-To: <200101231828.DAA29978@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp> References: <14957.38711.870552.778956@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200101231828.DAA29978@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14957.58579.658293.639038@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yoriaki FUJIMORI writes: > Dear Drew, > Thank you very much for your responce. I'll try running FreeBSD4.2R > on it near future. Thanks! I'll be looking forward to hearing from you. > To be exact, I am planning to get a skelton system for a Linux/Alpha > cluster. One Alpha vendor in Tokio is promoting a cheap system > around Yen200K (about USD1700.) Its spec is 21264a/600MHz, 2mb cache, > 64MB memory, one VGA card and ATAHDD blah... Any way, the cheapest one > I could find on earth. Much cheaper than anything I can find. I'm very impressed with the price. > I was not interested in UP1100 a while ago, for it can accomodate only > upto 768MB memory, and I thought that UP1100 could run only Linux. > Recently I started thinking about building an Alpha-based cluster system > in my lab. > # PVM3 on FreeBSD/Alpha seems to be buggy, though. I don't know anything about PVM, but if you can elaborate more on "buggy", somebody on the mailing list might be able to help you. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message