From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 6 21:27:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA24066 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 21:27:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from unix.tfs.net (root@unix.tfs.net [199.79.146.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA24046 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 21:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbryant@argus.tfs.net) Received: from argus.tfs.net (as1-p11.tfs.net [139.146.205.11]) by unix.tfs.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA23743; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 23:25:35 -0500 Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus.tfs.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id XAA00475; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 23:26:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199710070426.XAA00475@argus.tfs.net> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199710070155.SAA03145@usr08.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 7, 97 01:55:45 am" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 23:26:56 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-to: jbryant@tfs.net X-Windows: R00LZ!@# MS-Winbl0wz DR00LZ!@# X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 9 01:01:24 CDT 1997 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > Legions of Sprights, the which, like litle flyes Sprite/Sprights/etc... indicates something small... this is big... > Which covers a cluster virtual machine ("true-seeming lyes": it's not > a real single machine), and both message passing and multitasking. fitting, but because of above bad... > Hmmm... "Alchemy" has about the right ring to it, too. Plenty of > cool names out there... ;-). Alchemy has negative implications. Failed attempts to make lead into gold. Visions of quacks, witch-doctors, and fortune tellers ["The Future Fair! A fair for all, and no fair to anybody!"]. I was being serious about HyperPool... Serious literature will love the name, and it sounds KEWL to the neophyte. The name matches the concept, and would also get serious literature talking about it. It is also in true Berkeley tradition. Leave the pet names for Linux, but BSD should demand RESPECT! For true supercomputing performance, use a FreeBSD HyperPool. This name ROX!@# "Follow the yellow rubber line to the WALL OF SCIENCE!" jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inet: jbryant@tfs.net AX.25: kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam grid: EM28pw voice: KC5VDJ - 6 & 2 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 70cm FM. http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HF/6M/2M: IC-706-MkII, 2M: HTX-212, 2M: HTX-202, 70cm: HTX-404, Packet: KPC-3+