From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Jul 24 15:35:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F028E37B406; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with UUCP id f6OMZML19007; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:35:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] (eccles [194.32.164.2]) by seagoon.gid.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA21565; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:09:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20010724201930.C83511@jake.akitanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:09:16 +0100 To: John Baldwin From: Bob Bishop Subject: RE: Clustering efforts (was Re: Is this list dead?) Cc: Paul Robinson , freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, At 12:29 -0700 24/7/01, John Baldwin wrote: >There is no docco or anything cluster related in progress that I am aware of. >Earlier efforts to kickstart clustering work usually fizzled out into >discussions of what type of clustering did people really want. I.e., someone >came in and said "let's do clustering!" and then we had a discussion about >what >that meant and it petered out after a while. Starting with a specific goal >(web, mail, ftp, sql failover and load balancing) is, I think, a good way of >avoiding "running off into the weeds". Good luck. :) Just FTR, we are working dozens of self-contained computationally-intensive FORTRAN jobs which do little i/o and run for c.30hrs in about 100MB of RAM. We're using a cluster of 4x2x1GHz PIIIs running 4.3R. I've looked at GNU Queue which doesn't port very cleanly, and I'll be looking at the just-opensourced Sun Grid Engine stuff. I'll report progress to -cluster. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message