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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
>