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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:48:08 -0700 (MST)
From:      Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and clustering
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10202210745120.13123-100000@inago.swcp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020221144213.GD15365@hopi.hostsharing.net>

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> > I'd like to know if there is a resource for, or documentation on,
> > clustering for freebsd. A client has two identical machines (running 4.4,
> > i believe) that they want to setup in a hot spare/failover scenario. Does
> > freebsd have clustering capability and where can I learn more about it?

Purdue University created a cluster on the cheap using FreeBSD:
http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu/

quote from the site:
"All of the computers are running the FreeBSD operating system, a free
operating system that offers robust features, excellent performance and
high reliability. FreeBSD is a state-of-the-art operating system for
computers based on either Intel or DEC Alpha processors. The cluster is
coordinated by one of the two major publically-available distributed
system control programs called Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM). PVM runs on
FreeBSD and allows an application program to be oblivious to most of the
issues related to operating in a parallel computing environment. PVM
software handles message routing, data conversion, and task scheduling."

hope this helps, oh yeah, this is really not a freebsd-isp question


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