From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Oct 7 14:24:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA24176 for smp-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:24:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from usr05.primenet.com (tlambert@usr05.primenet.com [206.165.6.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA24171; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:24:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA08285; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:24:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710072124.OAA08285@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD To: ken@plutotech.com (Kenneth Merry) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:24:07 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199710071514.JAA28930@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Kenneth Merry" at Oct 7, 97 09:14:07 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > | > 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: Palanquin. It even has an obvious graphic: a bunch of BSD daemons at the cross members, carryuing it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.