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To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
cc: "Alex Fenyo (eowyn)" <fenyo@email.enst.fr>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD 
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From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@consys.com>
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> Alex Fenyo (eowyn) wrote:
> > 
> > I don't know the status of MOSIX, but for your information, there is
> > another multi-computer parallel machine based on FreeBSD, made in
> > France by a collaboration of different universities.
> > 
> The "status" of MOSIX is fully operational under BSD/OS. Some people
> have asked me about this: I only know the MOSIX team is now studying a
> port of MOSIX to FreeBSD. They seemed to like our difference with other
> OS's (namely Linux), and our licensing terms.
> 
> I looked a bit at MPC, it seems cool but I didn't like that they use
> this  unstandard hardware, while MOSIX uses anything from network cards
> to ATM or higher speed cards. I don't think MOSIX will include source
> code, and it seems like they will release a limited version for six
> computers, but I can live with it :-). (With six boxes, a common
> scientific process could take nearly 1/6 of the time on a fast network).
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The difference between "could" and "does" is the
reason for the failure of (nearly) every business unit that sold
highly parallel/cluster systems.

Cheers,
Russell



> 
> 	Pedro.
> > 
> > Alexandre Fenyo
> 
>