From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 28 15: 0:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1AAC37B722; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:00:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2SN7D905917; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:07:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:07:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Dan Moschuk Cc: , Subject: Re: MOSIX on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20010328170048.A5787@spirit.jaded.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dan Moschuk wrote: >For what it's worth, myself and the group of programmers I work with are >willing to give this MOSIX port a try, but someone *cough* eivind *cough* >hasn't gotten around to making a goals list for us to work towards yet. :-) That's excellent. If you're willing to work on it then myself and the scientists in the lab I work for would probably be willing to throw some test hardware at it. I think it would be really excellent to be able to offer the mosix process migration capabilities as a standard FreeBSD option. Something like options MOSIX and then a mosix.conf file or something to control the server-workstation pool behavior. We could then advertise we're the only 100% free out-of-the-box cluster ready operating system. I could even envision a sysinstall distribution option for cluster node which automatically offers a choice of MPI and PVM libraries out of the packages collection and installs a kernel.GENERIC.mosix or something. Like I said if we can get the source to the BSD/OS port unencumbered this would be a great starting point. -- Brandon D. Valentine "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message