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From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: spork <spork@super-g.com>
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Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD
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myrinet, same as the 60 machine MOSIX cluster in israel.

the berkeley project that spawened hotbot was called NOW (network of 
workstations)

On Thu, 15 May 1997, spork wrote:

> 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
> > 
>