From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 17:49:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226EB15D0A for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:49:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id RAA23281; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:26:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:26:57 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell To: "Samer, Michael, IN" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-Mail)" Subject: Re: Cluster?! In-Reply-To: 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 > Does anyone have experience (on universities or research) with Cluster and > the efficency? I don't know how much Alphas cost versus regular PCs, but you may want to take a look at Beowulf. I've heard several reports of people running it under FreeBSD, including an unconfirmed inside sourse at NASA. There are several commercial clustering programs also, though I do not know the name of them off the top of my head. Anyways if you run several fast PC's PII-400s or so with FreeBSD in a clusterd environment you should see quite a bit of performance, and a large cost savings. The best part (IMHO) of using the PCs, you can swap new ones in and out easily, and be cost-effective at doing so. Rick ---- "Religion exists because man can't belive that he's nothing more then a random accident." http://www.grendal.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message