From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 14:24:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16374 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 14:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA16369 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 14:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA15760; Thu, 15 May 1997 14:17:21 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705152117.OAA15760@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD To: rcarter@consys.com (Russell L. Carter) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 14:17:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, rcarter@consys.com, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199705151954.MAA24132@conceptual.com> from "Russell L. Carter" at May 15, 97 12:54:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hey clusters are a fine approach to distributed problems, but parallelism > across physically distributed systems has not succeeded often enough to > merit more than the merest blip in the computing industry. How many people would class the World Wide Web itself as a successful (though asymmetric) distributed cluster? How about "web farms", which are generally symmetric, but grossly load balanced via DNS rotor... do they count as clusters? How about the DNS services themselves? Lotus Notes server replication, anyone? NetWare 4.x NDS? NetWare SFT (Software Fault Tolernace)? The Wolf Mountain Group (as sued by Novell)? Tuxedo transaction processing system? The World Bank? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.