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From: "Jim Bodkins" <bodkins@prologic.com>
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Subject: Fw: clustering
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:04:56 -0700
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This is a copy of mail between me an kline about beowulf. What do you think
the FreeBSD folks might think?
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To: Jim Bodkins <bodkins@prologic.com>
Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: clustering


>On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 05:38:30AM -0700, Jim Bodkins wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>    Check www.beowulf.[org,com]. It came from aimes research (nasa) and
>> apparently is build on the VM of Linux as an LKM. Much more at the web
site.
>> By the way, I mailed you from the ezine.
>>
>
> It's .org (thankfully!).   Looks nice an outstanding project,
> and I'd hope that the Core team would give some consideration
> to this.
>
> Really, tho, it's up to whoever-is-interested since FBSD is
> strictly volunteer and a roll-you-own project.
>
> For places that run a network of FBSD (or maybe just *BSD)
> systems, beowulf seems like a way to maximize performance.
> Depending on how interested you are and how much time you
> can squeeze out of a day, why not send mail to the
> -questions and|or -hackers lists?
>
> Have a good one; thanks for the pointer.
>
> gary
>
>>
>
>--
>   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix


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