From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Oct 6 13:30:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA26180 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA26132; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:29:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from mail.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa04444; 6 Oct 97 16:29 EDT Received: from stretch.cs.virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA03566; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:29:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from atf3r@localhost) by stretch.cs.virginia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA21402; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:29:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:29:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Terry Lambert cc: "Ron G. Minnich" , dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199710061849.LAA15815@usr04.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > A cluster based on FreeBSD would > > I suppose have to have a different name, but we've done a lot of computing > > over the last three years with such a cluster: works fine. > > I vote for "Legion", because of the obvious tip of the hat to Chuck... You don't mean "Legion" as in http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~legion/ do you? These folks while open to newer and better hardware, they also seem to have become stuck on linux because it's what they could in stall on their desktops with IDE cdroms a long time ago. I tried to steer them into the light, but.... The name is derivative from the Herbert's "Dune" books. It's predecessor was "Mentat". Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/