From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 1 10:34:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1429737B403 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 10:34:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from white.acl.lanl.gov (white.acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.100]) by acl.lanl.gov (8.11.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id f61HYEp3739910 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:34:14 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 11890 invoked by uid 3499); 1 Jul 2001 17:34:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jul 2001 17:34:14 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:34:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Ronald G Minnich X-X-Sender: To: Subject: cluster software: consider bproc Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For those of you still looking at cluster stuff: I'd take a close look at www.scyld.com and see what they have. The key piece is bproc, which is now a sourceforge open source project set up by Erik Hendriks. You might want to look at bproc and see if that API could be implemented in FreeBSD. The Scyld cluster model results in clean, easily managed clusters. I've just brought up a 128-node Alpha cluster here with Scyld. You set up the front end and you're done. Even more fun, we're booting the first level out of FLASH via LinuxBIOS. I'd still like to see FreeBSD boot out of flash too, but don't have the time -- I'd be happy to work with interested parties though. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message