From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 7 01:29:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA08978 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 01:29:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from zwei.siemens.at (zwei.siemens.at [193.81.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA08743; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 01:24:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at) Received: from ws6303-f (root@firix [10.1.143.100]) by zwei.siemens.at with ESMTP id KAA05285; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:19:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ws6423.gud.siemens.at (ws6423-f) by ws6303-f with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA209842319; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:18:40 +0200 Received: by ws6423.gud.siemens.at (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA21886; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:17:32 +0200 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:17:32 +0200 From: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at (marino.ladavac@siemens.at) Message-Id: <199710070817.KAA21886@ws6423.gud.siemens.at> To: tlambert@primenet.com, adrian@virginia.edu Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD Cc: rminnich@sarnoff.com, dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Md5: fDp386tOHmAZwmLEp8+zDA== Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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" > 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 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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/ > >