Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:17:32 +0200 From: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at (marino.ladavac@siemens.at) To: tlambert@primenet.com, adrian@virginia.edu Cc: rminnich@sarnoff.com, dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD Message-ID: <199710070817.KAA21886@ws6423.gud.siemens.at>
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> From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 22:43:43 MET 1997
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:29:38 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu>
> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
> Cc: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@sarnoff.com>, dcarmich@mcs.com,
freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD
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>
> 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".
How about "The Swarm" then? It would have already been built had I not
bought myself a place to live instead. It had sort of a priority over
toys :(
/Marino
>
> 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/
>
>
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