From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 7 9:44:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC99714BD8 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 09:44:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA35333; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 12:47:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199911071747.MAA35333@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: various questions(clustering,encrypted fs) In-Reply-To: from Ariel Burbaickij at "Nov 7, 1999 12:32:24 pm" To: Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de (Ariel Burbaickij) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 12:47:42 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ariel Burbaickij wrote, > Does something simmilar to Beowulf exist?Was any experiments undertaken > with clustering of fbsd boxes?Does any source of information exist? > The second question is to wheather fbsd supports encrypted filesystems > In case it does is the support included in international version of fbsd? Beowulf, contrary to some popular belief, is not Linux specific. Nor is it even a specific software package. The most of the essential pieces you need to build a Beowulf, like PVM (pvm) and MPI (mpich), are in the ports. Note this from a Beowulf FAQ, "1. What's a Beowulf? [1999-05-13] It's a kind of high-performance massively parallel computer built primarily out of commodity hardware components, running a free-software operating system like Linux or FreeBSD, interconnected by a private ^^^^^^^ high-speed network. It consists of a cluster of PCs or workstations dedicated to running high-performance computing tasks. The nodes in the cluster don't sit on people's desks; they are dedicated to running cluster jobs. It is usually connected to the outside world through only a single node." You are going to have to search on your own for more specific info, but it is probably out there. As for the encrypted filesystem question, several other threads seem to have covered that very recently. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message