Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:13:24 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Robert Hugh Force II <tiberius@yta.attmil.ne.jp> Cc: David De Silva <david@desilva.co.uk>, freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web resources Message-ID: <19991222121324.P18739@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <3860A56F.D33F1FAE@yta.attmil.ne.jp>; from tiberius@yta.attmil.ne.jp on Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 07:18:23PM %2B0900 References: <006101bf4c58$230079d0$174c13d4@imperium.tele2.net.uk> <3860A56F.D33F1FAE@yta.attmil.ne.jp>
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On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 07:18:23PM +0900, Robert Hugh Force II wrote: > David, > > I asked the same question earlier this month. My search for web sites > that support/discuss Beowulfing with FreeBSD has been fruitless up to this > point. AFAIK, there are no pages on this; I suspect one of the reasons is that "Beowulfing" isn't considered difficult enough to need a web page. It is just something you do if appropriate. > http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel > Internet Parallel Computing Archive - A complete reference site > about everything that concerns parallel computing. I'm not sure if this is in the reference collection - Jeroen, will you add it if not? > http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/Research/rapid_sweb/SWEB.html > SWEB - Towards a Scalable World Wide Web Server on Multicomputers This one is not in the reference collection, I'm pretty sure. > Hopefully a site devoted to Beowulfing with FreeBSD will soon be > available. Do you want to make one? Or a section for the main FreeBSD clustering site? > 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. Actually, for a Beowulf-type cluster, I don't think FreeBSD's networking capabilities matter that much - the kind of tasks that a Beowulf is good at are computing focused, not network focused. If your Beowulf couldn't use wet string as its communications medium, I would look carefully for a solution that isn't a Beowulf. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message
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