From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 16:52:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF7C106567D for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:52:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from millenia2000@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc1-s31.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s31.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C528FC12 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:52:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from millenia2000@hotmail.com) Received: from BAY126-W18 ([65.55.131.53]) by bay0-omc1-s31.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:52:26 -0700 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [204.249.77.1] From: Sean Cavanaugh To: , FreeBSD Questions Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:52:26 -0400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <669452.4810.qm@web65612.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> References: <669452.4810.qm@web65612.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2008 16:52:26.0661 (UTC) FILETIME=[3B545D50:01C932D4] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:52:26 -0000 > Date: Mon=2C 20 Oct 2008 08:19:28 -0700 > From: gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster >=20 > Hello=2C i am interested in setting up a small cluster=2C of about 5 mach= ines to show how this can work on a university environment. Its kind of a p= itch to university authorities to show them how this work so they can think= on investing top dollars on it. We have a bunch of workstations running F= reeBSD=2C However as i been reading through the documentation=2C the canoni= cal situacion would be a environment where the machines netboot over the se= rver=2C get most of their partitions over NFS and have NIS installed so use= rs can authenticate at the server and share resources available at the clus= ter.=20 >=20 not an answer to your question=2C but you might be interested by this http:= //mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/ might give you some insight into what you are looking for -Sean