Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 13:54:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Reitz <reitz@eecs.cwru.edu> To: Kyrre Nygard <kyrreny@broadpark.no> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A neural/distributed FreeBSD network Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.53.0605191352111.10369@bender> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060519101021.0220baa0@broadpark.no> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060519101021.0220baa0@broadpark.no>
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On Fri, 19 May 2006, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > Hello! > > Got a weird question here ... > > I'm a bit curious as to how one can make multiple computers > act as one network. I'm not talking merely /etc/hosts and gateways > or some VPN where connections are just encrypted, but like > something more ... neural, you all feel me? where the operating > systems themselves act together in a distributed fashion. > > Does something like this even exist? Hi Kyrre, I don't know of any "neural" network packages off the top of my head, but there are distributed programming mechanisms such as MPI (message passing), Charm++ (distributed objects), and even Apple's Xgrid[1] (distribute compute-intensive tasks), that can all probably be made to work on FreeBSD. Are any of these similiar to what you are looking for? -Andy. [1] Xgrid main page: http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/ Xgrid unix agent: http://unu.novajo.ca/simple/archives/000026.html
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