From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 21:22:48 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 21:22:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392A737B401 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 21:22:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eB55Min01546; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 21:22:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 21:22:44 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Tim McMillen Cc: Matt Bedynek , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster Message-ID: <20001204212244.F8051@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001204010614.U8051@fw.wintelcom.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 timcm@umich.edu on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:53:17PM -0500 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Tim McMillen [001204 18:53] wrote: > > 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, I really don't, sorry. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message