From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 13:51:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F27A16A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:51:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq1.home.nl (smtpq1.home.nl [213.51.128.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67EE43D31 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:51:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=46752 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CZUsv-0000Lw-JH; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:51:09 +0100 Received: from cc740438-a.deven1.ov.home.nl ([82.75.136.183]:3252 helo=[192.168.1.100]) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CZUsu-0007x2-Kd; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:51:08 +0100 Message-ID: <41ADCC4C.2050703@sitetronics.com> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:51:08 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Koza Zbigniew References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clustering: how to start? X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:51:11 -0000 Koza Zbigniew wrote: [snip] > Then I recalled that several years ago I experimented with FreeBSD and I > liked it. Now I hear that FreeBSD supports SMP "natively", so > no kernel recompilation will be necessary. > I thought - maybe we could try and use FreeBSD instead of Debian? > Now my question is: where should I start? > Which docs should I read? > Which program(s) should I use to cluster our 4 FreeBSD boxes? > > regards, > Z. Koza FreeBSD won't do process distribution natively. Want a project? :) Other than that, there are other programs you can use to distribute applications in userspace (such as any of the MPI packages; I've had good experience with lam-mpi). To monitor the status of your clusters, you can use an application called Ganglia. Good luck! Devon H. O'Dell > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cluster > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-cluster-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >