Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 08:53:41 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@consys.com> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Cc: "Alex Fenyo (eowyn)" <fenyo@email.enst.fr>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD Message-ID: <199705151553.IAA22312@conceptual.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 May 1997 15:45:01 MST." <337A406D.228D@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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> Alex Fenyo (eowyn) wrote:
> >
> > I don't know the status of MOSIX, but for your information, there is
> > another multi-computer parallel machine based on FreeBSD, made in
> > France by a collaboration of different universities.
> >
> The "status" of MOSIX is fully operational under BSD/OS. Some people
> have asked me about this: I only know the MOSIX team is now studying a
> port of MOSIX to FreeBSD. They seemed to like our difference with other
> OS's (namely Linux), and our licensing terms.
>
> I looked a bit at MPC, it seems cool but I didn't like that they use
> this unstandard hardware, while MOSIX uses anything from network cards
> to ATM or higher speed cards. I don't think MOSIX will include source
> code, and it seems like they will release a limited version for six
> computers, but I can live with it :-). (With six boxes, a common
> scientific process could take nearly 1/6 of the time on a fast network).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The difference between "could" and "does" is the
reason for the failure of (nearly) every business unit that sold
highly parallel/cluster systems.
Cheers,
Russell
>
> Pedro.
> >
> > Alexandre Fenyo
>
>
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