From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Jan 22 15:04:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA28195 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:04:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from MERCURY.CS.UREGINA.CA (MERCURY.CS.UREGINA.CA [142.3.200.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28187; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:04:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karimi@cs.uregina.ca) Received: (from karimi@localhost) by MERCURY.CS.UREGINA.CA (8.8.5/8.7.5) id RAA18145; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:04:09 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:04:08 -0600 (CST) From: Kamran Karimi To: rich@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smp and clustering Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >You might want to look at the Zounds DSM by Ron >Minnich. It hasn't been ported to a recent release as >far as I know though. There's also DIPC (distribured >IPC) that supports distributed semaphores and shared >memory, but I havne't seen a port of it either. DIPC makes all System V IPC mechanisms (shared memories, messages, and semaphores) work transparently over a network. It is currently only available for Linux, but I think it can be ported to FreeBSD. DIPC extends a SMP programming interface to a multi-computer (clustered PCs). For more information and downloading the package (includes the sources), visit http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc -Kamran Karimi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message