From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 30 06:17:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA18444 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 06:17:37 -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 GAA18436 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 06:17:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from donegan@oldnews.quick.net) Received: (from donegan@localhost) by oldnews.quick.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) id GAA23596; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 06:17:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 06:17:00 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven P. Donegan" To: Christian Kuhtz cc: Steve Passe , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOW/MOSIX/Beowulf In-Reply-To: <19981229234937.N477@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.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 The two (different, but similar) goals I'm looking at are: Hobby level (ie commodity hardware and 'cheap') NOW plaything Commercially usable NOW tool ($ not as much a factor) MOSIX provides for up to 6 BSDI nodes, using any available network path(s) and provides transparent load distribution/migration - no specialized programming/API's needed to use it - it appears as if it's one computer. Beowulf requires PVM style programming, but runs today on Linux SMP platforms and supports network card trunking in the kernel drivers (like, but not compatable with, Cisco's etherchannel). Both have interface support for Myrinet - a proprietary crossbar switch based gig speed LAN. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message