From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 7 00:13:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA04304 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 00:13:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr05.primenet.com (tlambert@usr05.primenet.com [206.165.6.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA04296 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 00:13:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA19251; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 00:13:38 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710070713.AAA19251@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD To: jbryant@tfs.net Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 07:13:38 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199710070426.XAA00475@argus.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Oct 6, 97 11:26:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.