From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 27 02:55:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA19602 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 02:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA19576 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 02:54:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.178]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 11:56:48 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03935; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 11:53:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <35924BE0.9535601B@hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 11:53:07 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: Chan Fook Sheng Subject: RE: FreeBSD parallel computing Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Jun-98 Chan Fook Sheng wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Is there a way to connect a few FreeBSD together to make a > supercomputer? Have a look at "pvm" (parallel virtual machine) For SMP have a look at FreeBSD-3.0 (still under development) > > If yes, then can I assume that it's just providing load and memory > sharing, or there is something more compare to a standalone FreeBSD? For pvm you have to rewrite your application and link it against the pvm-lib. The pvm-server then distributes the tasks to the machines that have registered with the server over some network. => no implicit memory-sharing. Malte. > > Regards, > > Fook Sheng > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 27-Jun-98 Time: 11:33:59 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message