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 > NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 > NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 > Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939 >
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