Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 18:30:37 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@minas-tirith.pol.ru>, "Ron G.Minnich" <Sarnoff.COM!rminnich@minas-tirith.pol.ru>, Tom <tom@sdf.com>, Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Cluster? Message-ID: <XFMail.980304183037.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304133513.4820B-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>
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On 04-Mar-98 Robert Watson wrote: .... > For clustered computational work, however, there are no debates about > performance :). Hiding clustering of network services as well as > retaining reliability is a very interesting problem -- perhaps use of a > NAT to do magic would help here? We conputed about 10-25 times slower memory access for database engine type work. This was with specialized hardware, with about 800MB/Sec node-node communications. Intelectually challenging project, though... ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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