From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Oct 7 04:03:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA17134 for smp-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 04:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from mother.sneaker.net.au (akm@mother.sneaker.net.au [203.30.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA17124; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 04:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akm@mother.sneaker.net.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mother.sneaker.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA13876; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 20:56:21 GMT From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199710072056.UAA13876@mother.sneaker.net.au> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 20:56:21 +0000 () Cc: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at, tlambert@primenet.com, adrian@virginia.edu, rminnich@sarnoff.com, dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <5361.876213747@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 7, 97 01:42:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk +-----[ Jordan K. Hubbard ]------------------------------ | | > 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. How about the 'Hive' then for a group of industrious hardworking insects working in harmony... | 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*] Where's the place where all the daemons play? HELL? d8) -- ,-_|\ SneakerNet | Andrew Milton | GSM: +61(41)6 022 411 / \ P.O. Box 154 | akm@sneaker.net.au | Fax: +61(2) 9746 8233 \_,-._/ N Strathfield +--+----------------------+---+ Ph: +61(2) 9746 8233 v NSW 2137 | Low cost Internet Solutions |