Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:18:03 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> Cc: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@yahoo.com>, "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fabi=E1n?= Salamanca" <dhrcorp@hotmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: clustering code Message-ID: <3BCE3BDB.6B5A28@bellatlantic.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110142117320.31470-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov>
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Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Rayson Ho wrote: > > > http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/ > > A collection of some really bad ideas, not likely to scale well. Note that > they've got up to 30 nodes, wow. Double it once and that's where this kind > of "global everything" idea starts to fall over. Badly. > > It would be neat to see freebsd do something really new and novel in > clustering. ssci-linux is not it. It's going to be very hard to pick > something new, a lot of the ground is well-trod. It definitely looks like it is. Well, though it could definitely benefit from direct support in the database management systems. This DBMS support may be exactly this "something really new and novel". And directly comparing the number of nodes with Beowulf-style clusters is not fair. The Beowulf clusters can be reasonably efficiently used only for a very limited class of problems with very high parallelism of subtasks, high computational complexity of each subtask and very low interactions between them. So they are a quite degenerated case and pretty useless for business applications. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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