From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 21:23:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA06631 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 21:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypher.net (black@zen.pratt.edu [205.232.115.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA06626 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 21:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from black@localhost) by cypher.net (8.8.5/8.7.1) id AAA17465; Fri, 16 May 1997 00:21:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:20:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black To: Jason Thorpe cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD In-Reply-To: <199705160323.UAA26363@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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" 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 >