From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 29 18:35:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17492 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:35:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17487 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:35:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost.StevesCafe.com [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29911; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:39:34 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199812300239.TAA29911@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 From: Steve Passe To: "Steven P. Donegan" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOW/MOSIX/Beowulf In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:46:53 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:39:34 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > On a completely different subject :-) > > Given FreeBSD-current's performance, and SMP capabilities, has anyone > addressed using FreeBSD in a Network-Of-Workstations/MOSIX/Beowulf style > baby supercomputer? MOSIX (last time I checked) was BSDI only. Any > thoughts? I'm looking at highly scalable email/ldap applications. checkout: http://www.sarnoff.com:8000/docs/metacomputing.html I've been thinking that modifying our make to be "cluster aware" would be a useful project. Put 2 or 3 dual SMP machines together with an NFS mounted /usr/src & /usr/obj and we might aproach 10 minute buildworlds... -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message