Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 11:53:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: Chan Fook Sheng <chen68@hotmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD parallel computing Message-ID: <XFMail.980627115307.malte@webmore.com> In-Reply-To: <35924BE0.9535601B@hotmail.com>
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On 25-Jun-98 Chan Fook Sheng wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Is there a way to connect a few FreeBSD together to make a > supercomputer? Have a look at "pvm" (parallel virtual machine) For SMP have a look at FreeBSD-3.0 (still under development) > > If yes, then can I assume that it's just providing load and memory > sharing, or there is something more compare to a standalone FreeBSD? For pvm you have to rewrite your application and link it against the pvm-lib. The pvm-server then distributes the tasks to the machines that have registered with the server over some network. => no implicit memory-sharing. Malte. > > Regards, > > Fook Sheng > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> Date: 27-Jun-98 Time: 11:33:59 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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