From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 28 20:28:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gforce.homelan.net (24-216-61-170.hsacorp.net [24.216.61.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E8E37B727 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.homelan.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2T4RsU03664; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:27:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from glenn) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:27:49 -0600 To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , Gerhard Sittig , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MOSIX on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010328222749.A3621@gforce.homelan.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 On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:24:24AM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > >> 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. I thought that FreeBSD was associated with BSDi now. I wonder if something could be worked out because I do not think that BSDi is doing anything with the MOSIX code. In any event if anything starts to happen on this front I and my employer would be willing to help in any way possible. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message