Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 07:13:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jbryant@tfs.net Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD Message-ID: <199710070713.AAA19251@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199710070426.XAA00475@argus.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Oct 6, 97 11:26:56 pm
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> > Legions of Sprights, the which, like litle flyes
>
> Sprite/Sprights/etc... indicates something small... this is big...
Well, sure, but what if you get a legion of them together... 8-).
Also, there are already "Demonic" references, like FAUST/FAUSTUS,
etc., and they fall into similar research areas.
> 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.
But what do you do for an encore to "Hyper"? "W" had "X"...
There is already a UCB OS project called "Sprite", FYI.
> Leave the pet names for Linux, but BSD should demand RESPECT!
I have visions of "Who HyperPeed in the HyperPool?". But then what
do you expect from someone who memorizes dead English poets. I guess
"Xanadu" is already taken by something which has never become reality,
so Samuel Taylor Coleridge would be a bad choice, too ("Albatros" is
also taken).
Maybe mythology? "Cerebus" or "Hecate"; but then you'd have to max
out at three nodes. 8-). How about "Fury", after the "Furies"?
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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