From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 14 20: 5:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCA4B37B40A for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 20:05:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 966292 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2001 21:05:45 -0600 Received: from snaresland.acl.lanl.gov (128.165.147.113) by acl.lanl.gov with SMTP; 14 Oct 2001 21:05:45 -0600 Received: (qmail 31510 invoked by uid 3499); 14 Oct 2001 21:05:44 -0600 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Oct 2001 21:05:44 -0600 Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:05:44 -0600 (MDT) From: Ronald G Minnich X-X-Sender: To: =?iso-8859-1?B?RmFiaeFuIFNhbGFtYW5jYQ==?= Cc: Subject: Re: clustering code In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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