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Date:      Fri, 16 May 1997 00:20:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To:        Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Cc:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>, "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@sarnoff.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cluster Computing in BSD 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.970516002011.15211D-100000@zen.cypher.net>
In-Reply-To: <199705160323.UAA26363@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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yes, since the bad guys are all too stupid to hack it to allow unlimited 
CPUs.  guess again, please.

On Thu, 15 May 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Thu, 15 May 1997 20:16:39 -0700 
>  "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> wrote:
> 
>  > Actually there could be something more, because they explicitly asked me
>  > if they were forced to include the sources ala GPL.
>  > The hard part is probably in the kernel patches, but the version they
>  > distribute (MO6) will crash if it finds more than six nodes. In their
>  > campus they run a cluster with 60 Pentiums and PPros.
> 
> ...right, and the reason for this is fairly obvious: you don't want
> the Bad Guys(tm) getting a supercomputer.
> 
> Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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