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To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD
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"Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> writes:
> For some strange reason I was looking at BSDI's web and I found the
> Multicomputer Operating System fo Unix "MOSIX":
> http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/mirrors/mosix/
> It would be worthwhile to convince them to support FreeBSD, and they are
> probably interested anyway. Has anyone contacted them? (I emailed but I
> think it's aabbath over there).

I don't know the status of MOSIX, but for your information, there is
another multi-computer parallel machine based on FreeBSD, made in
France by a collaboration of different universities.

This low cost/high performance parallel computer, named MPC, is based
on a network of CPU boards running a modified version of FreeBSD (new
kernel services, modifications and additions of new functionnalities
in the VM subsystem, and new drivers for the interconnection
network). The boards are interconnected with a custom interconnection
network of routers, developped at UPMC, each router containing 8
full-duplex 1 GigaBit/s asynchronous serial links.

Infomations available at http://cao-vlsi.ibp.fr/mpc/index.gb.html

Alexandre Fenyo