From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Dec 10 15: 6:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5F937B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:06:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mgr2.xmission.com (mgr2.xmission.com [198.60.22.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7671943EB2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:06:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from mail by mgr2.xmission.com with spam-scanned (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18LtQA-0005uZ-02 for freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:04:10 -0700 Received: from [207.135.128.145] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr2.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18LtPJ-00059a-02; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:03:19 -0700 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gBAN3DI11094; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:33:13 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:33:13 +1030 From: Greg Lewis To: Mike Hoskins Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Message-ID: <20021211093313.A11028@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20021210144140.F80524-100000@fubar.adept.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021210144140.F80524-100000@fubar.adept.org>; from mike@adept.org on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:48:16PM -0800 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=8.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT,X_AUTH_WARNING version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:48:16PM -0800, Mike Hoskins wrote: > > I think FreeBSD would run all these Linux things just as well as Linux > > does. I sure wish somebody would look at bproc for FreeBSD. > > OK, I'm searching for bproc now. ;) In general though, the current > problem is there's plenty of people saying "I wish someone would do X" and > not many people doing... anything. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bproc Also consider things like Open MOSIX in this space (http://www.openmosix.org/). > > > - Scale to 100s of nodes. > > start at 1024. > > It seems that's about where lustre.org's efforts are. I'm going to try to > get a better understanding of their architecture. Actually, for anything new, you should aim at scaling to at least 10,000 nodes IMO. The 1,000 node mark is already here, the future is only going to bring higher node counts. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message