From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 4 07:29:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20957 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 07:29:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA20926 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 07:29:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rminnich@Sarnoff.COM) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00201; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:28:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:28:08 -0500 (EST) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: Tom cc: Alex Povolotsky , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cluster? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yeah, but that's been done for the most part too. For example, we did mpeg encoding in parallel for several projects and demonstrated that you could walk up to a node or set of nodes, power them off, and continue to get your data. I'm assuming you've all looked at condor as well. Sorry, I missed part of this discussion. You can't run a cluster for anything useful without addressing failures. It's a given, much like AC power, which is why we don't talk about it that much. ron Ron Minnich |Java: an operating-system-independent, rminnich@sarnoff.com |architecture-independent programming language (609)-734-3120 |for Windows/95 and Windows/NT on the Pentium ftp://ftp.sarnoff.com/pub/mnfs/www/docs/cluster.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message