From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 30 16:30:49 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 A08A637B401 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:30:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [193.197.184.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9885043EBE for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:30:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with gbsmtp id 18II0T-0006wV-00; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 01:30:45 +0100 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAUNZpi6098986 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 00:35:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAUNZpFn098985 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 00:35:51 +0100 (CET) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: FreeBSD software to create "super computer" ? Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 23:35:50 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20021130160800.U6214-100000@hub.org> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 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 ... I think the people who jabber about clusters need a reality check. At BSDCon, Hubert Feyrer gave a talk "Clustering NetBSD". http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/papers/feyrer.pdf Folks, go and read it. Yes, it's boring. That's the point. Although this was a particular ad-hoc project, I think it is representative in many ways. Clusters aren't general purpose tools. They can be used to develop highly specific solutions to unique problems of a certain type. And there are no solutions out of the box. If you have an actual use for a cluster, you can also set one up. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message