From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 30 5:55: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E26E37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 05:55:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mini.acl.lanl.gov (root@mini.acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.34]) by acl.lanl.gov (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA2734981; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:55:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (rminnich@localhost) by mini.acl.lanl.gov (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17870; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:55:06 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: mini.acl.lanl.gov: rminnich owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:55:06 -0700 (MST) From: Ronald G Minnich X-Sender: rminnich@mini.acl.lanl.gov To: Tim Tsai Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DSM Facility for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20001130031551.A8295@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Tim Tsai wrote: > > Also, my requirements are significantly more relaxed than a true DSM model > (and much more lightweight is preferred).. I really just need synchronized > views of data on a "reasonable" effort basis (i.e. it's OK if one > client/peer sees slightly older data. Sequence is important though). check out http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich, see zounds. Worked well for me on clusters. The only DSM I've ever seen that supports IP multicast for updates. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message