From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 20:45:19 2004 Return-Path: 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 87C0616A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:45:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F38343D31 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:45:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wegster@mindcore.net) Received: from mindcore.net (rdu162-234-100.nc.rr.com [24.162.234.100]) i2B4jBSm010365; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:45:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <404FEED6.4060004@mindcore.net> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:45:10 -0500 From: Scott W User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." References: <20040310110526.GA94997@xor.obsecurity.org> <404F6559.9070406@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <404F6559.9070406@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions cc: daniel+bsd@pelleg.org Subject: Re: Compiling Packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 04:45:19 -0000 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: >> >> >>> A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports >>> are on >>> FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed >>> that >>> they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to know if I >>> wanted >>> to donate, or words to that affect. >>> >>> In any case, would that refer to donating an actual computer, or simply >>> donating computer time? I have three computers, only one running FreeBSD >>> at this time. I certainly am not going to give away any of my computers, >>> but I would be willing to share time on one of them if that would help. >>> >> >> >> What would be useful is multiple (e.g. at least half a dozen) fast >> machines with good network connectivity. Individual machines aren't >> much help, I'm afraid. Thanks for the offer though. >> >> kris >> >> > > Sorry to jump in both uninvited, and late...and, > to boot, with just so much theoretical hogwash; > I thought it might be of interest to the discussion > at hand. > > I've been getting more interested in clustering. > With all the "hoopla" (as it were) about BSD clusters, > would one fast cluster do this task? (i.e., could > you build packages over MPI?) > > Not that I have 'em, but my server farm is growing > faster than my hosting business... and I'm hoping > to get situated with a faster connection soon. > > Heh, if it can work that way, maybe we should beg > from Matt or Brooks? :-D > > Kevin Kinsey > DaleCo, S.P. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Unless something _huge_ has changed fundamentally in the way MPI is implemented- nope, it wouldn't help, without huge amounts of work. Did a development project years ago that looked like a cluster would be useful, but it was for an existing app- which would have been quite a bit of work to segregate tasks into easily distributed 'chunks.' Something along the lines of 'distcc' would likely be of more immediate use for a compile farm... Scott