From owner-freebsd-cluster Thu May 17 0:52:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com [209.247.77.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F19237B423 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 00:52:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gordont@bluemtn.net) Received: from localhost (gordont@localhost) by sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (8.11.3/8.11.2/BMA1.1) with ESMTP id f4H7oOb84364 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 00:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 00:50:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow X-X-Sender: To: Subject: State of the Cluster Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was wondering what the current state of clustering in FreeBSD was. Browsing through the archives, I didn't see much (I don't think this list gotten more 50 messages in the past 9 months). I'm kinda new to clustering and was wondering what I could do with a bunch of machines (couple hundred anyway). Okay, in fact, I've never really dealt with a cluster per-se, but I might be taking a job that will put me in charge of admining one. It'll be Linux, but I thought I might do some research and see if my favorite operating system offers anything over it. Gratuitous Buzzwords: PVM MPI DIPC Mosix What about distributed procps (ala Beowulf)? I saw a thread about that in January but it seems to have died out. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-cluster Thu May 17 7:11:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 995E937B422 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 07:11:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from white.acl.lanl.gov (IDENT:root@white.acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.100]) by acl.lanl.gov (8.11.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id f4HEBki568834; Thu, 17 May 2001 08:11:55 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (rminnich@localhost) by white.acl.lanl.gov (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA18228; Thu, 17 May 2001 08:11:21 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: white.acl.lanl.gov: rminnich owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 08:11:21 -0600 (MDT) From: Ronald G Minnich X-Sender: To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: Subject: Re: State of the Cluster In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 May 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > Gratuitous Buzzwords: > PVM > MPI why? what's your application? If it's web farm this stuff is useless. > DIPC > Mosix ditto. > What about distributed procps (ala Beowulf)? I saw a thread about that in > January but it seems to have died out. we have a way to do that the same way plan9 does, with private name spaces. But we haven't finished the port. There is a start at www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich, look for the file system for freebsd. So far nobody's had the time to finish it. We're using the bproc stuff here, it is really nice. You could try to port that too. But we also know it won't scale past 256, so we're looking at what comes after that. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-cluster Fri May 18 11:42:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from yhman.tnuni.sk (yhman.tnuni.sk [193.87.64.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C41C37B424 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:42:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pese@yhman.tnuni.sk) Received: from yhman.tnuni.sk (yhman.tnuni.sk [193.87.64.150]) by yhman.tnuni.sk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4IIl8O99293 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 20:47:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pese@yhman.tnuni.sk) Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 20:47:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Sedivy - PeSe X-Sender: pese@localhost Cc: cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of the Cluster In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 May 2001, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > > Gratuitous Buzzwords: > > PVM > > MPI > > why? what's your application? If it's web farm this stuff is useless. > > DIPC > > Mosix > ditto. > so what kind of sw or what do I have to use ? PeSe > > > What about distributed procps (ala Beowulf)? I saw a thread about that in > > January but it seems to have died out. > > we have a way to do that the same way plan9 does, with private name > spaces. But we haven't finished the port. There is a start at > www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich, look for the file system for freebsd. > > So far nobody's had the time to finish it. > > We're using the bproc stuff here, it is really nice. You could try to port > that too. But we also know it won't scale past 256, so we're looking at > what comes after that. > > ron > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message > ================================================================= Omnia mea mecum porto ***** Peter Sedivy - PeSe ================================================================= e-MAIL: pese@yhman.tnuni.sk URL: http://yhman.tnuni.sk/pese/ ================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message