From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 20:20:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1789D16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 20:20:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from netmeister.org (netmeister.org [64.81.200.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C3B43FB1 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 20:20:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jschauma@netmeister.org) Received: by netmeister.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9B99B2DC624; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 23:22:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 23:22:50 -0500 From: Jan Schaumann To: Rayson Ho Message-ID: <20031107042250.GB3913@netmeister.org> Mail-Followup-To: Rayson Ho , bioclusters@bioinformatics.org, beowulf , Linux Cluster , List , tech-cluster@netbsd.org References: <20031106145623.GA5867@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <20031107005951.2157.qmail@web11407.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XF85m9dhOBO43t/C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031107005951.2157.qmail@web11407.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: List cc: bioclusters@bioinformatics.org cc: beowulf cc: tech-cluster@netbsd.org cc: Linux Cluster Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD clusters (was: how are the Redhat product changes affecting existing and future plans?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 04:20:58 -0000 --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rayson Ho wrote: > A very good paper about building HPC clusters with FreeBSD: >=20 > "Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD" >=20 > http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ >=20 > The author talked about hardware issues: KVM, BIOS redirection, CPU > choices; and then talked about why he chose FreeBSD instead of Linux... > he also did the port of GridEngine (SGE) to FreeBSD. >=20 > Anyone tried to setup HPC clusters with *BSD?? I have a 30 node NetBSD/i386 cluster, and just recently created the tech-cluster@netbsd.org mailing list. Some people are working on a port of SGE to NetBSD, too. I hope to expand the awareness of NetBSD in particular for cluster usage in the near future. Some URLs of relevance: http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/hpcf/ http://www.netbsd.org/MailingLists/#tech-cluster http://www.netbsd.org/ http://eurobsdcon.org/papers/#souvatzis http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D03/10/20/1523252&mode=3Dthread&tid= =3D122&tid=3D185&tid=3D190 http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/11/05/1536226.shtml?tid=3D122&tid=3D185&tid= =3D190 -Jan --=20 Life," said Marvin, "don't talk to me about life." --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (NetBSD) iD8DBQE/qx4afFtkr68iakwRAlZaAKDNrRoIwtwjP9t4/eEfBEtpiv/p6ACgt5FR 9gGHhsjX+zJE9NeSwAwgLo8= =zUsX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C--