From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Oct 6 01:07:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA12331 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 01:07:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from ceylon.informatik.uni-rostock.de (ceylon.informatik.uni-rostock.de [139.30.5.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA12326 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 01:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunther@informatik.uni-rostock.de) Received: from donau.informatik.uni-rostock.de (donau [139.30.7.135]) by ceylon.informatik.uni-rostock.de (8.8.5/8.8.5/relay3.0) with ESMTP id JAA29958; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:40:13 +0200 Received: (from gunther@localhost) by donau.informatik.uni-rostock.de (8.8.5/8.8.5/fin2.0) id JAA00909; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:40:11 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:40:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gunther Hipper Message-Id: <199710060740.JAA00909@donau.informatik.uni-rostock.de> To: dcarmich@mcs.com Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: VpEMoEfQJMq7xUQNgJnSLQ== Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is there any way one can build large "Beowulf-like" clusters with FreeBSD and its SMP functionality? > Anyone built such a beast? > Hi ! I built a system with 16 nodes (Gigabyte Motherboard, 2*P150) running FreeBSD. Interconnection network is at the moment 4 FastEthernet Hubs, so each node is equipped with 4 FastEthernet Ports and a "slow" Ethernet for network-booting. MPI (based on LAM) and PVM are up and running on FreeBSD-SMP. Especially thanks to Steve. He helped me a lot concenring my No-File-System- Option, the PCI-Brigde and the EIDE-harddisk...... Works fine, but I need to install the latest FreeBSD-SMP code. At the moment, I'm stuck on some FreeBSD-Snapshot and working on my Ph.D. Thesis..... What do you want to do with the system? Bye Gunther