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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:39:34 -0700
From:      Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To:        "Steven P. Donegan" <donegan@quick.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NOW/MOSIX/Beowulf 
Message-ID:  <199812300239.TAA29911@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:46:53 PST." <Pine.BSI.3.91.981229174300.21721C-100000@oldnews.quick.net> 

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Hi,

> On a completely different subject :-)
> 
> Given FreeBSD-current's performance, and SMP capabilities, has anyone 
> addressed using FreeBSD in a Network-Of-Workstations/MOSIX/Beowulf style 
> baby supercomputer? MOSIX (last time I checked) was BSDI only. Any 
> thoughts? I'm looking at highly scalable email/ldap applications.

checkout:
http://www.sarnoff.com:8000/docs/metacomputing.html

I've been thinking that modifying our make to be "cluster aware"
would be a useful project.  Put 2 or 3 dual SMP machines together
with an NFS mounted /usr/src & /usr/obj and we might aproach 10
minute buildworlds...

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