From owner-freebsd-cluster Thu Dec 12 1:14:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD5837B401 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 01:14:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from gate.nentec.de (gate2.nentec.de [194.25.215.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1482943EC5 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 01:14:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sporner@nentec.de) Received: from nenny.nentec.de (root@nenny.nentec.de [153.92.64.1]) by gate.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id gBC9EOP32005; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:14:24 +0100 Received: from nentec.de (andromeda.nentec.de [153.92.64.34]) by nenny.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gBC9EJt04291; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:14:19 +0100 Message-ID: <3DF8536B.6040908@nentec.de> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:14:19 +0100 From: Andy Sporner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Hoskins , freebsd-cluster Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster References: <20021211115133.B82994-100000@fubar.adept.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-perl11-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Hoskins wrote: >On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Andy Sporner wrote: > > >>Sequent used a Numa concept on their new machines (before IBM killed >>them) and I am very familiar with this approach. This allowed standard >>applications to run without modifications (such as Oracle)... >> >> > >NUMA is nice... > >I'm still looking into IBM's work and the stuff at lustre.org. I'll >probably start hacking as soon as I understand the architecture a bit >better, but between work and my outdated coding skills I'm not expecting >anything to actually work. ;) > > I have lost track since I have been here. I had a friend who was looking to get me into Base OS Group at Sequent before I came here (Hey is Kevin Smallwood listening here???) But I have no idea since then. IMHO single image machines are more usefull to the majority of the people doing clustering. I wish we could all afford to be about to buy 1000 machines, but I think this is out of the question. The plan to publish a direction paper for a single image cluster is still on target for the end of the year. Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message