Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 23:03:55 +0000 (GMT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: "Alex Fenyo (eowyn)" <fenyo@email.enst.fr> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970515230232.17998A-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <d062079u7a0.fsf@autan.enst.fr>
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What of the whole Inktomi/Hotbot clustering systems? What are these based on? I believe this came from a Berkely project... Charles On 14 May 1997, Alex Fenyo (eowyn) wrote: > "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> writes: > > For some strange reason I was looking at BSDI's web and I found the > > Multicomputer Operating System fo Unix "MOSIX": > > http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/mirrors/mosix/ > > It would be worthwhile to convince them to support FreeBSD, and they are > > probably interested anyway. Has anyone contacted them? (I emailed but I > > think it's aabbath over there). > > 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. > > This low cost/high performance parallel computer, named MPC, is based > on a network of CPU boards running a modified version of FreeBSD (new > kernel services, modifications and additions of new functionnalities > in the VM subsystem, and new drivers for the interconnection > network). The boards are interconnected with a custom interconnection > network of routers, developped at UPMC, each router containing 8 > full-duplex 1 GigaBit/s asynchronous serial links. > > Infomations available at http://cao-vlsi.ibp.fr/mpc/index.gb.html > > Alexandre Fenyo >
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