Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 01:42:27 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at (marino.ladavac@siemens.at) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, adrian@virginia.edu, rminnich@sarnoff.com, dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD Message-ID: <5361.876213747@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Oct 1997 10:17:32 %2B0200." <199710070817.KAA21886@ws6423.gud.siemens.at>
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> How about "The Swarm" then? It would have already been built had I not > bought myself a place to live instead. It had sort of a priority over > toys :( Hmmm. Swarm. That makes me think of locusts, those industrious little insects which often move from place to place in great numbers, eating and overcoming all in their path. It's a nice analogy for what we'd like to do, actually, and I believe it's referred to as a "plague of locusts" in that context, so if we wanted to draw some nifty insect analogies for massive distributed parallelism then I guess we could call such a cluster a "FreeBSD plague", or "a plague of FreeBSD machines." This would lead in turn to some pretty nifty sound bites, such as "Got plague?" or "The FreeBSD plague: Catch it today!" Yeah, I like it! It's got legs, gents! Let's do it!! Let's... What? I should stick to engineering, you say? But it's so *catchy*, I mean, haha, consider just the pun opportunities! No? Well fine, be that way then! [*sulk*] Jordan
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