From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 30 15:46:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E3E937B401 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 15:46:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from charter.net (dhcp-220-8.slidell.charter-ala.com [24.158.214.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B56C43EB2 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 15:46:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) Received: from gforce.johnson.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by charter.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAUNkOVw001096; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:46:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from glenn@gforce.johnson.home) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAUNkO3n001095; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:46:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from glenn) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:46:24 -0600 To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD software to create "super computer" ? Message-ID: <20021130234624.GA1007@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021130160800.U6214-100000@hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021130160800.U6214-100000@hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message