From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 3 7:19: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366CC153A3 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 07:19:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA12761; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:19:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id QAA77014; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:19:02 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:19:02 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Spurs Innovation in Supercomputing Message-ID: <19990603161902.A76949@bitbox.follo.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from The Hermit Hacker on Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 12:31:52AM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 12:31:52AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Just in case nobody has seen this yet...not sure how/if we can use this... > > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990602/ca_sun_mic_1.html I looked it over; it does not seem particularly useful. The single thing I think would be most useful in bringing FreeBSD up as a high availability cluster platform would be to repeat Simon's (proprietary, due to choices that were not his to make) work on integrating a distributed lock manager in PostgreSQL. I have the lock manager code (which I hope to integrate in FreeBSD when I get time to bug bde about what the problems he was handwaving about actually are), but not the PostgreSQL mods. After that comes integrating Ron Minnich' work on using /proc cross-cluster; after that again replacing the startup system and cron/inetd configuration system (which is really inconvenient if you want to do a full cluster with slightly different functions on the different nodes), and after that integrating MOSIX (re-implementing the parts we can't get the source to). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message