Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:19:13 -0600 (CST) From: Murphey <rich@FreeBSD.ORG> To: licia@o-o.org Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smp and clustering Message-ID: <199901212119.PAA14532@xa.rich.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990121130405.24959A-100000@o-o> (message from Licia on Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:06:41 -0600 (CST)) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990121130405.24959A-100000@o-o>
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>Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:06:41 -0600 (CST) >From: Licia <licia@o-o.org> > > >I'm becoming interested in the concept of clustering computers (at least >I believe that's the term for what I'm interested in :) ) and I was wondering >if someone could advise me as to the feasibility of modifying the SMP system >in FreeBSD to support sharing processors and memory with a completely separate >computer, over a high speed ethernet connection? As far as I know there aren't any readily available ports of shared distributed memory systems (DSMs) for a current release of FreeBSD. I'd be interested in them as well if there are. You might want to look at the Zounds DSM by Ron Minnich. It hasn't been ported to a recent release as far as I know though. There's also DIPC (distribured IPC) that supports distributed semaphores and shared memory, but I havne't seen a port of it either. On the other hand, setting up parallel distributed memory applications is relatively easy if you use PVM and/or MPICH which are both in the ports collection. Rich To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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