From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 16 00:34:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA14212 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 May 1997 00:34:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA14205 for ; Fri, 16 May 1997 00:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA07371; Fri, 16 May 1997 10:33:54 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 10:33:54 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Jason Thorpe cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD In-Reply-To: <199705160323.UAA26363@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 May 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 1997 20:16:39 -0700 > "Pedro F. Giffuni" 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. No, they just want money in case you want to have more than six nodes. Or it looked like that on their web page when I looked last time. Sander > > Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov > NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 > NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 > Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939 >