From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 01:31:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F451065671 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:31:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [66.246.138.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33AB8FC12 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:31:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B0B919D0D; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:14:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on muon X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from [10.0.10.11] (tau.demon.co.uk [80.177.26.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:14:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <48FE7E7A.2010509@cran.org.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:14:34 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Robillard References: <226ae0c60810210918xbd221c3q5a0926df66b2aa6f@mail.gmail.com> <608552.36336.qm@web65613.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <226ae0c60810211320q47286a73qed76d44f76021f13@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60810211320q47286a73qed76d44f76021f13@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions , gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com Subject: Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:31:52 -0000 David Robillard wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Gerardo Paredes > wrote: > >> From what i have read, Matt Olander and Brooks Davis are the foremost experts at cluster building on FreeBSD. However i believe a document needs to be written explaining in detailed steps how to do it, so the common user can do it. Obviously not every "common" man needs a cluster. >> >> In my case i am pitching the project of a big cluster to our University here in Honduras to run some kinds of apps we have, like a Trade Exchange Market Simulation written in Python we have about two years developing which we plan to run distributed across the cluster. >> >> >> Since I cannot attend that seminar, i will be expecting for at least the presentation to be posted. >> > > Actually, this was a presentation I attended last year. So the slides > already exist. You can also grab their old paper at > http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ but this is a bit > out-dated. > > My advice would be to try and contact Mr. Brooks Davis directly. If > you can't find him, try and send an email to the organisers of BSDCan > from http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/contact.php. I believe you should talk > to Dan Langille on the BSDCan commitee > http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/committee.php > > Good luck and have fun! Your project seems quite interesting :) > > David > It seems the same presentation was given at AsiaBSDCon 2007: it's linked to from http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/index.html The slides are at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-slides.pdf and the paper is at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-paper.pdf -- Bruce Cran