From owner-freebsd-cluster Wed Dec 22 2:51:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from avon.desilva.co.uk (avon.desilva.co.uk [212.19.64.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA6214DEE for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 02:51:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@desilva.co.uk) Received: from davidds (gate.netcomconsult.co.uk [212.19.64.126]) by avon.desilva.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA07021 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:51:25 GMT (envelope-from david@desilva.co.uk) Received: from 212.19.76.23 by barney.netcomconsult.co.uk Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:53:32 -0000 Message-ID: <001101bf4c6a$50719a90$174c13d4@imperium.tele2.net.uk> From: "David De Silva" To: References: <006101bf4c58$230079d0$174c13d4@imperium.tele2.net.uk> <3860A56F.D33F1FAE@yta.attmil.ne.jp> Subject: Re: Web resources Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:50:06 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks Robert. The link to Ron Minnich's page was particularly useful. = I'm collecting 'obsoleted' hardware from work with a view to building a = 4 node cluster at home. Any larger than 4 is likely to be the cause of a = "domestic dispute" ;-) > I am trying to get a copy of the Extreme Linux CD that describes how = to > setup a Beowulf using Red Hat Linux v5.2. I know this is an old = version > of RH but I figure it is still useful information that can be used to > setup a Beowulf in general. I suspect the packages (PVM,MPI,etc) are out of date too but the = documentation may be useful. I've gleaned all of mine from various = Beowulf-related sites, and the important software is in FreeBSD's ports = collection. > Hopefully a site devoted to Beowulfing with FreeBSD will soon be > available. I am not sure why people don't seem to be using FreeBSD = for > this task. It's superior networking capabilities would seem to lend = it > very well to such a task. Most of the Beowulf/Linux material is applicable to BSD too, but I guess = i'd like to see a site up simply from a BSD advocacy perspective. People = are using it but no-one's shouting about it. I'm surprised that = extremebsd.org is unregistered. Any takers, or shall I do it? . Best regards, David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message