From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Oct 6 13:42:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA27592 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:42:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from usr04.primenet.com (tlambert@usr04.primenet.com [206.165.6.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA27582; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:42:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA25588; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:42:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710062042.NAA25588@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD To: adrian@virginia.edu Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 20:42:26 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, rminnich@sarnoff.com, dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" at Oct 6, 97 04:29:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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". Nope. Chuck is the BSD Daemon. "Legion" is a biblical reference; do the math. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.