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