Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:00:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Kimball <anthony.kimball@East.Sun.COM> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD Message-ID: <199710071600.LAA26271@compound.east.sun.com>
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The principal software bit missing from BSD is coscheduling. I believe the PGHPF compiler for Linux should suffice to compile HPFortran code for a cluster, but without synchronous scheduling of the related processes of distinct cluster nodes, network performance will stink unless you restrict yourself to running one application at a time.
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