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From: Peter Sedivy - PeSe <pese@yhman.tnuni.sk>
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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
> 
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