From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Mar 5 7:40:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from gate.nentec.de (gate2.nentec.de [194.25.215.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B11F37B402 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 07:40:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from nenny.nentec.de (root@nenny.nentec.de [153.92.64.1]) by gate.nentec.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA31954; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:40:43 +0100 Received: from andromeda (andromeda [153.92.64.34]) by nenny.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id g25Fech15861; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:40:38 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020305085934.V8898-100000@cluster.nix.selu.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:40:41 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: Andy Sporner Organization: NENTEC Netywerktechnologie GmbH From: Andy Sporner To: Jason Fried Subject: RE: FreeBSD Cluster at SLU Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-perl11-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > > Well, I just joined this list last week, I didnt see any posts, so i dont > know. I guess this list includes all types of Clustering Projects that use > FreeBSD. > > Your project sound interesting. > > Ive been thinking about using some system for process migration, like > mosix but thats only for linux, though I hear that somebody has done the > same for freebsd I don't know about it, except for NOW and SPRITE. I would like to expand on the 'Jail' concept whereby a virtual machine is spanned accross many physical machines. In this way the only processes that can move are in some sort of container. The biggest advantage I think that I can bring is migratable networking sockets. Also shared memory would be available across the machines (though I don't think this is new). > > Most of the time I spent working on my cluster was to handle the setup of > new nodes, and to handle changing configurations on existing nodes. > There is a thread going on about 'fish' in hackers. I had thought about the problem in my GUI. I may actually try to address it, since I handle configuration replication and it would be a small matter to include the settings in 'rc.conf' and other things. > Now I just need to get a book on mpi programing and learn how to write > programs to take advantage of this cluster. Good luck! Andy PS. When I do the next release you might consider trying it for no other reason as to have a central console... > > > Jason Fried > > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Andy Sporner wrote: > >> Hi Jason, >> >> I am curious as to the target of this group which I have just joined. I see >> few posts here. I have a clustering system as well that works for FreeBSD. >> The purpose is to handle application failover. This weekend (I hope!!!) I >> will >> release the next version (211) that provides for centralized management of >> nodes in the a cluster (That you can see all the processes and do basic >> administration). My next attempt after 211 is to handle process migration >> between nodes. >> >> Is the clustering that is present here only representative of Beowulf style >> clustering? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> Andy Sporner >> >> PS. The site is http://www.sporner.com/bsdclusters... >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message