From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 11 9:34:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from post.webmailer.de (natmail2.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A85E37BF91 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frederik@freddym.org) Received: from server.wes.mee.com (p3E9C0345.dip.t-dialin.net [62.156.3.69]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA15975; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:34:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.wes.mee.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA02064; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:30:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:30:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Frederik Meerwaldt X-Sender: frederik@server.wes.mee.com To: Gary Jackson Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software? In-Reply-To: <200007111551.LAA18321@leviathan.umiacs.umd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! > Anyway, "clustering software" is meaningless. What does "clustering > software" do? Queue and run parallel jobs? Set up a communications > medium? Do load balancing or high availability between a set of > nodes? All those definitions are correct. That's right. I'm coming a little bit from the VMS-World. Easy-to-set-up clusters with lots of power, load balancing, shared drives.... However, I already have the answer. Thanks Matthew. Bye, Freddy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message