From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 29 18:46:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA18182 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:46:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oldnews.quick.net ([207.212.170.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA18174 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from donegan@oldnews.quick.net) Received: (from donegan@localhost) by oldnews.quick.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) id SAA22033; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:46:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:46:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven P. Donegan" To: Steve Passe cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOW/MOSIX/Beowulf In-Reply-To: <199812300239.TAA29911@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Steve Passe wrote: > 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 > Will do... > 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... > Here's the beef :-) 1) SMP base 2) NOW aware (MOSIX migration under load model is good) 3) The network is king - so Cisco or Beowulf style etherchannel or gigabit or gigabit etherchannel is good. 4) Network switching fabric - HP and Cisco both support etherchannel - 400 megabits full duplex is a decent backbone :-) 4 gigs in Cisco only environs but I doubt any PCI card can do much with that :-) 5) Storage - Network Appliances support gig ethernet - and can actually serve that bandwidth :-) I'm just a power monger with a commercial application, and a home overkill desire :-) Cheers... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message