From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 18 23:03:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA07066 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:03:36 -0700 Received: from griffin.itc.gu.edu.au (griffin.itc.gu.edu.au [132.234.1.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA07060 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:03:34 -0700 Received: from pegasus.itc.gu.edu.au by griffin.itc.gu.edu.au with SMTP id AA17622 (5.65b/IDA-1.4.3 for hackers@freebsd.org); Wed, 19 Apr 95 16:03:18 +1000 Received: (from greg@localhost) by pegasus.itc.gu.edu.au (8.6.10/8.6.10) id QAA13328 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 16:03:17 +1000 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 16:03:17 +1000 From: Greg Watson Message-Id: <199504190603.QAA13328@pegasus.itc.gu.edu.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Russell, > In addition to the other observations: > ... > > Succintly, I can build scalable 2k Flops/sec/$ systems using FreeBSD. Not even > the most recent J-90 comes close. > Sounds like you've ported almost all of our IBM SP2 environment to FreeBSD. Just need to get LoadLeveler up and running and we can chuck out AIX! Whoopee! (I wonder how much of the 5Gflops we'd really get....) I'm sure our parallel BLAS users would be most happy too... Cheers, Greg _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ Greg Watson, Manager _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Facility _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ Griffith University, Nathan, Qld 4111, Aus. _/_/_/ _/ / _/ Phone: +61-7-875-5543 Fax: +61-7-875-6650 _/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ EMail: G.Watson@gu.edu.au