From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 7 09:13:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA06884 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:13:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA06879 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA11437; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710071610.JAA11437@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: anthony.kimball@east.sun.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 09:10:05 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:00:02 -0500 (CDT) Tony Kimball wrote: > The principal software bit missing from BSD is coscheduling. I > believe the PGHPF compiler for Linux should suffice to compile And, in fact, I have used that compiler under NetBSD for just such a purpose. You need to get the full Linux toolchain and includes, and create Linux executables, but that's no big deal. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: +1 415 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 415 428 6939