From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Oct 6 18:56:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA16335 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:56:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from usr08.primenet.com (tlambert@usr08.primenet.com [206.165.6.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA16324; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:56:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA03145; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:55:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710070155.SAA03145@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 01:55:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, adrian@virginia.edu, rminnich@sarnoff.com, dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199710062126.PAA01718@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 6, 97 03:26:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > I vote for "Legion", because of the obvious tip of the hat to Chuck... > .. > > Chuck is the BSD Daemon. "Legion" is a biblical reference; do the > > math. 8-). > > Legion in the Bible is translated to mean 'more than one Demon' (note > the difference in spelling. Chuck is a singular entity, and one whose > purpose is to do good, not evil. Actually, "I am Legion (capital 'L') for we are many". So it was "many Demons". A Daemon is more properly compared with a Homonculus or Imp, I suppose, though I have met more than one person who, wearing a BSD Daemon shirt, was accused of "promoting devil worship". If you want to reference it with less alchemic and/or Biblical/Diabolical overtones: And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd Legions of Sprights, the which, like litle flyes Fluttering about his ever-damned hedd, Awaite whereto their service he applyes, To aide his friendes, or fray his enimies. Of those he chose out two, the falsest twoo, And fittest for to forge true-seeming lyes: The one of them he gave a message too, The other by him selfe staide, other worke to doo. -- The Faerie Queene, Book One, Canto I Which covers a cluster virtual machine ("true-seeming lyes": it's not a real single machine), and both message passing and multitasking. 8-). Hmmm... "Alchemy" has about the right ring to it, too. Plenty of cool names out there... ;-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.