From owner-freebsd-cluster Thu Oct 10 5:11:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 085B337B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 05:11:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.nentec.de (gate2.nentec.de [194.25.215.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4728543E9E for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 05:11:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sporner@nentec.de) Received: from nenny.nentec.de (root@nenny.nentec.de [153.92.64.1]) by gate.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g9ACBTE21074; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:11:29 +0200 Received: from nentec.de (andromeda.nentec.de [153.92.64.34]) by nenny.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9ACBTt27414; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:11:29 +0200 Message-ID: <3DA56E71.6080702@nentec.de> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:11:29 +0200 From: Andy Sporner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: de-at, de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie References: <1417395373.20021001231457@dds.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Alex wrote: >Hello/Beste freebsd-cluster, > >Hi i'm new to the list. I noticed the cluster project when i looked at >the mail list. Can you give me any pointers on where to look? Is the >cluster project ready for use? > >I have to setup/build a cluster for my university. The main purpose of >the cluster is to show the cluster properties to other students. We >got a number of sparc64 computers available for this task. (I'm >considering early use of FreeBSD 5.0) > First I am not clear if there is a specific "Project". There is the cluster software I have been working on, which is failover software, and then there is the Beowulf type--which you have to get somewhere else. As I see it they are probably different ports. If you want failover, check here: http://www.sporner.com/freebsdclusters otherwise, check for a Beowulf port. I still intend to write a futures paper for the next version (including process swapping across machines--towards where VMS clusters are). Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message