From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 31 18:29:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA22558 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 18:29:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA22543 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 18:29:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-ppp.i-connect.net) Received: (qmail 26053 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Nov 1997 02:30:12 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-beta-100797 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 18:30:12 -0800 (PST) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: (Niall Smart) Subject: RE: Distributed systems/processing using FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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