Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:05:44 -0600 (MDT) From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> To: =?iso-8859-1?B?RmFiaeFuIFNhbGFtYW5jYQ==?= <dhrcorp@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: clustering code Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110142102150.31470-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <F60UJ0wFOAKzPZ2GtBY00004453@hotmail.com>
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Fabián Salamanca wrote: > I'd like to try to develop code (maybe kernel code modifications or > external modules) for clustering with FreeBSD, but I'd like to see some > work in order to know where I might get started, I'm thinking 'bout plain > C and maybe C++ and some shell scripting, no. That's yucky. Take a good hard look at what scyld.com has, or go to the source forge and check out the bproc project. We definitely don't need another ball of C/C++ + scripts. If you're going to do that then just get OSCAR and port it to freebsd. But if you want to do something new and interesting you could get a bproc-like system working on freebsd. We run two 128-node clusters here with this stuff, and one of them uses linuxbios, and I have to say it's a total change in the way we do clusters. Instant cluster boot, no local root disks (local /tmp of course!), upgrade all the software in < 1 minute, ... it's really nice. We distribute our stuff via the sourceforge, you can also try bitkeeper.com. Both are really nice. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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