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To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
Cc: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@sarnoff.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 20:23:09 -0700
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On Thu, 15 May 1997 20:16:39 -0700 
 "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> wrote:

 > Actually there could be something more, because they explicitly asked me
 > if they were forced to include the sources ala GPL.
 > The hard part is probably in the kernel patches, but the version they
 > distribute (MO6) will crash if it finds more than six nodes. In their
 > campus they run a cluster with 60 Pentiums and PPros.

...right, and the reason for this is fairly obvious: you don't want
the Bad Guys(tm) getting a supercomputer.

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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