From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Oct 7 08:17:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA02756 for smp-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (ken@mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA02750; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:17:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA28930; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:14:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Kenneth Merry Message-Id: <199710071514.JAA28930@pluto.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199710072056.UAA13876@mother.sneaker.net.au> from Andrew Kenneth Milton at "Oct 7, 97 08:56:21 pm" To: akm@mother.sneaker.net.au (Andrew Kenneth Milton) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:14:07 -0600 (MDT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] 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 Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote... > +-----[ 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... The name 'Beehive' is already in use: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/aman/beehive/index.html Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com