From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jan 21 13:20:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29316 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:20:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xa.rich.org (216-119-137-48.ipset17.wt.net [216.119.137.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29309 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:20:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rich@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from rich@localhost) by xa.rich.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA14532; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:19:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rich@xa.rich.org) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:19:13 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199901212119.PAA14532@xa.rich.org> X-Authentication-Warning: xa.rich.org: rich set sender to rich@xa.rich.org using -f From: Murphey To: licia@o-o.org CC: smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Licia on Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:06:41 -0600 (CST)) Subject: Re: smp and clustering Reply-to: rich@FreeBSD.ORG References: Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:06:41 -0600 (CST) >From: Licia > > >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