From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 7:29: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6F037B42C for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 07:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e7UESpn13384; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:28:51 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000701c01264$87613c20$05fea8c0@tiger.earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:28:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: MIke Cragin Subject: RE: clusters Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Aug-00 MIke Cragin wrote: > Ladies and gentlemen, > > I have recently become interested in Linux clustering and am wondering if > my favorite os will support the Red Hat implementation of it. I would hate to > convert all my FreeBSD machines into Red Hat but I think this will be an > important technology to learn. If you have any web sites I might visit to > learn more about clustering on BSD or the Beauwolf project, I would be very > aprecreitive. > > thanks in advance > > Mike Cragin One definition of a Beowulf cluster is simply to have many machines connected on a net to do a job. With this definition the distributed.net-campaign is a Beowulf. This is only suitable if the problem can be cut up in little pieces that can execute by themselves. An example is povray which renders images. You can distribute the job of renedering onto M machines and have the time cut down by a factor M at best. There is a port of the PVM (Parallell virtual machines) library which can be interesting if you need inter-client communication too. I have never heard of the linux patches being implemented on FreeBSD. I am sure it would be cool though:) In all: Your problem at hand decides for you which way to go. It is much easier if the problem can be split into independent executables with very little communication between them. ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message