From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Jul 9 3:33:34 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 5711937B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 03:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.nentec.de (gate2.nentec.de [194.25.215.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C924143E3B for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 03:33:30 -0700 (PDT) (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 g69AXRA25629; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:33:27 +0200 Received: from nentec.de (andromeda.nentec.de [153.92.64.34]) by nenny.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id g69AXPZ31561; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:33:25 +0200 Message-ID: <3D2ABBF4.5010807@nentec.de> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 12:33:24 +0200 From: Andy Sporner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: de-at, de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derek Barrett Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPREAD clusters References: <20020709083759.11726.qmail@graffiti.net> 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 Derek Barrett wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I picked this up from another mailing list. > >There is a toolkit over at Johns Hopkins University called >SPREAD, which has been implemented to clustered applications such as >Apache-SSL and Postgres-R. > >"Spread is designed to encapsulate the challenging aspects of asynchronous networks and enable the construction of scalable distributed applications, allowing application builders to focus on the differentiating components of their application. " > >Maybe this code would work in conjunction with Andy's code, as >part of the "Phase 2" project. > >Derek > Hi, Nice idea, but the idea I had was more lower level. In that it was a modification on the VM system. The basic premise is that a process does not need to be "cluster-aware" to operate. But this is not to discourage their usage--it's just not in focus for Phase-2. Thanks Andy > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message