Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:03:07 +0200 From: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at (marino.ladavac@siemens.at) To: ken@plutotech.com, tlambert@primenet.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD Message-ID: <199710080803.KAA19138@ws6423.gud.siemens.at>
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> From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 23:46:06 MET 1997 > From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> > Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD > To: ken@plutotech.com (Kenneth Merry) > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:24:07 +0000 (GMT) > Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG > X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > | > How about "The Swarm" then? It would have already been built had I not > > > | > bought myself a place to live instead. It had sort of a priority over > > > | > toys :( > > > | > > > | Hmmm. Swarm. That makes me think of locusts, those industrious > > > | little insects which often move from place to place in great numbers, > > > | eating and overcoming all in their path. > > > > > > How about the 'Hive' then for a group of industrious hardworking insects > > > working in harmony... > > > > The name 'Beehive' is already in use: > > Palanquin. > > It even has an obvious graphic: a bunch of BSD daemons at the cross > members, carryuing it. There is another one, obvious and probably taken, but: Phalanx n. 1 (in ancient Greece) close formation, esp. of infantry ready for battle. The graphic should be obvious, too. /Marino > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers.
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