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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:07:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>
To:        Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: MOSIX on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103281758030.5817-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010328170048.A5787@spirit.jaded.net>

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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dan Moschuk wrote:

>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. :-)

That's excellent.  If you're willing to work on it then myself and the
scientists in the lab I work for would probably be willing to throw some
test hardware at it.  I think it would be really excellent to be able to
offer the mosix process migration capabilities as a standard FreeBSD
option.  Something like options MOSIX and then a mosix.conf file or
something to control the server-workstation pool behavior.  We could
then advertise we're the only 100% free out-of-the-box cluster ready
operating system.  I could even envision a sysinstall distribution
option for cluster node which automatically offers a choice of MPI and
PVM libraries out of the packages collection and installs a
kernel.GENERIC.mosix or something.  Like I said if we can get the source
to the BSD/OS port unencumbered this would be a great starting point.

-- 
Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net>
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a
good example."  --  Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson


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