Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:08:38 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MOSIX on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010328150838.Y9431@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103281758030.5817-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>; from bandix@looksharp.net on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 06:07:13PM -0500 References: <20010328170048.A5787@spirit.jaded.net> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103281758030.5817-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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* Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net> [010328 15:01] wrote: > 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. Sorry for jumping in knowing half the story, but this sounds too cool! If you guys need any sort of help getting this done let me know and I'll see if I can help. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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