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Date:      Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:46:24 -0600
From:      Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD software to create "super computer" ?
Message-ID:  <20021130234624.GA1007@gforce.johnson.home>
In-Reply-To: <20021130160800.U6214-100000@hub.org>
References:  <20021130160800.U6214-100000@hub.org>

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On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:10:16PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> I'm really growing tired of reading articles talking abot so and so
> creating a super computer of 1400 CPUs running Linux ... latest one I
> read was one that HP setup ...
> 
> ... is there software available for FreeBSD that can do this, or is
> this something we are being left behind in?

I am not sure what the HP setup is; can you provide a reference?

In general, FreeBSD can be set up as a Beowulf style cluster or
"supercomputer" just as well as Linux can.  The only advantage I can
think of that Linux has in this area, besides publicity and support from
heavy weights like IBM and HP, is there is work being done on a parallel
file system for Linux clusters.  Although, an NAS or SAN system would
also work and would be OS independent.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj@charter.net

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