Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 18:30:12 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: (Niall Smart) <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Distributed systems/processing using FreeBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.971031183012.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <E0xRMp0-0002bc-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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Hi Niall Smart; On 31-Oct-97 you wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone had any pointers to information or comments > on using FreeBSD as the base operating system on which to build some > infrastructure useful in distributed systems/processing. > > I am currently looking at a number of projects for my final year project > in college, and should be deciding on one soon. Two of them really > belong in an operating system kernel and therefore hopefully merit some > discussion here: > > - distributed filesystem; a high performance (intelligent caching and > replication of data), secure (authentication and encryption), > heterogenous and hopefully relatively lightweight distributed > filesystem with conventional filesystem semantics (distributed > locking) > (By lightweight I mean that it should be easy to setup and use, > hopefully as straightforward as plain old NFS) > > - a library of useful communication primitives for distributed parallel > processing, e.g. distributed shared memory, distributed semaphores > > Also, if anyone else is working on similar areas or would like to do > some stress/beta testing I'd be interested in hearing from them too. > > Yours sincerely, > > Niall Smart I am working on some of these issues. Please contact me directly if you are interested. We are building a distributed, Fault Tolerant transaction processor using RDBMS and FreeBSD, integrated. --- If Microsoft Built Cars: Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car. Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.799.2313
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