From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 18:53:22 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 18:53:20 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3036A37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:53:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.140]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id VAA28777; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 21:53:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id VAA27130; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 21:53:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 21:53:17 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Matt Bedynek , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster In-Reply-To: <20001204010614.U8051@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Matt Bedynek [001203 23:26] wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I was wondering what it would take to setup a cluster array of servers to > > process CPU intensive tasks? > > You would need some sort of inter-machine communication code. > Several libraries are in the ports tree that support inter-machine > clustering. Alfred, can you provide more info on this? In ports the only things I see are clusterit-1.3 and pvm. Clusterit may work, but it's webpage at http://www.inficad.com/~garbled/clusterit.html doesn't even mention FreeBSD as being one of the OS's it works on. Pvm is what the Purdue ACME system uses. I may be wrong, but I seem to remember reading that they had to modify it a lot. Are there other clustering tools you know of? Do you know what the gohan ports building machines are clustered with? Any info would be appreciated, Thank you, Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message