From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 28 14: 0:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from spirit.jaded.net (shortbus.jaded.net [216.94.132.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 232BC37B71D; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@spirit.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by spirit.jaded.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2SM0mV06230; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:00:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:00:48 -0500 From: Dan Moschuk To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: eivind@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MOSIX on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010328170048.A5787@spirit.jaded.net> References: <02e001c0b730$590b4d40$931576d8@inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bandix@looksharp.net on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:24:24AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | >> And what exactly does the "MOSIX" thing do? Maybe vmware, bochs | >> or another PC emulator can help you? | >www.mosix.org | > | >Sorry for the lack of terminology, but apparently is some sort of clustering | >software for linux to setup clusters with a few linux machines. | | It's an alternative to MPI or PVM which performs parallel execution | across a cluster of linux machines. It's advantage is that it can take | applications like say, Apache, who aren't MPI capable, but are threaded, | and distribute their threads over the cluster for parallel execution. | No need to rewrite code for MPI threads. However, it's certainly not as | efficient as MPI or PVM for real world applications. The Hebrew | University of Jerusalem writes the software and before they wrote it for | linux, they had a BSD/OS version. They are not allowed to release the | source to the BSD/OS version, presumably because BSDi had some sort of | source restriction on them at the time. If anything I would look into | whether BSDi owns the source and get them to release it. It would be a | much easier FreeBSD port from there. For what it's worth, myself and the group of programmers I work with are willing to give this MOSIX port a try, but someone *cough* eivind *cough* hasn't gotten around to making a goals list for us to work towards yet. :-) Cheers, -Dan -- God game men a brain and a penis but only enough blood to run one at a time. -- Robin Williams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message