From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Aug 10 23:27:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16807 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 23:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16801 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 23:27:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA47398; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 23:26:58 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id XAA09765; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 23:26:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 23:23:31 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Josef Grosch cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MOSIX for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <19980810084458.A27606@mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Josef Grosch wrote: >On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 02:41:49PM +0200, Stephane Legrand wrote: >> Alex writes: > >MOSIX uses the network cards from Myrinet (www.myri.com) as the bases of it >system. We have a driver for these cards and there is a version of MOSIX >for 6 machines based on BDSI. This version is in the form of source code >patches to BSDI 2.x and 3.x. No need to get lucky. Clustering has already been done on FreeBSD. Check out the trapeze project. They already cluster FreeBSD machines. It is a duke.edu project. I would think a prexisting port from FreeBSD fans would be desirable for ioctl (did i get that right?) reasons. http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/trapeze/index.html The clustering software is available under "Tadaaaah" Berkeley License. The source is here... http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/manic/tpz_www/trapeze_root.html Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message