From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 15 8:49: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f166.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.19.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A325737B40C for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:48:50 -0700 Received: from 128.251.176.112 by lw12fd.law12.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:48:50 GMT X-Originating-IP: [128.251.176.112] From: "=?iso-8859-1?B?RmFiaeFuIFNhbGFtYW5jYQ==?=" To: rminnich@lanl.gov, raysonlogin@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: clustering code Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:48:50 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Oct 2001 15:48:50.0418 (UTC) FILETIME=[E2586520:01C15590] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Ok Ron, well you're right, a bunch-of-more code is not really useful, I'll check Plan 9, it seems it convinced you a little bit,  :-)

thanks, and regards,

Fabián

>From: Ronald G Minnich
>To: Rayson Ho
>CC: Fabián Salamanca ,
>Subject: Re: clustering code
>Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:21:58 -0600 (MDT)
>
>On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Rayson Ho wrote:
>
> > http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/
>
>A collection of some really bad ideas, not likely to scale well. Note that
>they've got up to 30 nodes, wow. Double it once and that's where this kind
>of "global everything" idea starts to fall over. Badly.
>
>It would be neat to see freebsd do something really new and novel in
>clustering. ssci-linux is not it. It's going to be very hard to pick
>something new, a lot of the ground is well-trod.
>
>For other examples of what you can do (maybe not what you SHOULD do) see
>npaci ROCKS, OSCAR, and follow the references from there.
>
>On the should-do list, see plan 9 -- (on plan 9 I tend to sound like a
>broken record) read and understand the Plan 9 stuff, see how well it would
>work as a cluster technology (we have a 32-node plan 9 cluster here, it's
>quite cool), and see about bringing those neat ideas to freebsd.
>
>ron
>

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