Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:08:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Chan Fook Sheng <chen68@hotmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD parallel computing Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980625165000.714B-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625121058.1471w-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Chan Fook Sheng wrote: > > > Is there a way to connect a few FreeBSD together to make a > > supercomputer? > > Yes, clustering has been done by people at Sarnoff Corp. (Sorry, me and > names are horrible, and I just spoke to the guy last week!) The tools to > do it are not publicy accessible ye, although we're working on that. It is possible as well to build Beowulf-style message passing clusters for parallel processing with FreeBSD by simply installing MPICH or PVM after FreeBSD has been installed. For MPICH, see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/index.html For PVM, see http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html I use MPICH on a FreeBSD cluster; I haven't tried PVM on FreeBSD, but it ought to work. See also http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/ClusterCookbook/ for more info and links regarding Beowulf-style clusters. Guy Helmer Guy Helmer, Graduate Student, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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