From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 21 6:48:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from taka.swcp.com (taka.swcp.com [198.59.115.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D86E537B421 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:48:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from inago.swcp.com (inago.swcp.com [198.59.115.17]) by taka.swcp.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1LEm8672744 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:48:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (deichert@localhost) by inago.swcp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA13647 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:48:08 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: inago.swcp.com: deichert owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:48:08 -0700 (MST) From: Diana Eichert X-Sender: deichert@inago.swcp.com To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and clustering In-Reply-To: <20020221144213.GD15365@hopi.hostsharing.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I'd like to know if there is a resource for, or documentation on, > > clustering for freebsd. A client has two identical machines (running 4.4, > > i believe) that they want to setup in a hot spare/failover scenario. Does > > freebsd have clustering capability and where can I learn more about it? Purdue University created a cluster on the cheap using FreeBSD: http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu/ quote from the site: "All of the computers are running the FreeBSD operating system, a free operating system that offers robust features, excellent performance and high reliability. FreeBSD is a state-of-the-art operating system for computers based on either Intel or DEC Alpha processors. The cluster is coordinated by one of the two major publically-available distributed system control programs called Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM). PVM runs on FreeBSD and allows an application program to be oblivious to most of the issues related to operating in a parallel computing environment. PVM software handles message routing, data conversion, and task scheduling." hope this helps, oh yeah, this is really not a freebsd-isp question To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message