Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 02:07:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Heredity Choice <stork@qnet.com> Cc: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>, Matt Bedynek <mbedynek@pdq.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster Message-ID: <20001205020736.J8051@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <002b01c05ea0$223c4f50$41c4ddd1@STORK>; from stork@qnet.com on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:45:42AM -0800 References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10012042118590.19223-100000@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> <002b01c05ea0$223c4f50$41c4ddd1@STORK>
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* Heredity Choice <stork@qnet.com> [001205 01:54] wrote: > Sprite is an offspring of BSD designed as a distributed operating system. It > works over a LAN, with process migration to processors not in use. It was > developed by John Ousterhout and others at the CSRG, Berkeley. Sadly it has > not been maintained for about 6 years and needs porting to modern hardware. > > Rumor has it that the Linux with outstanding clustering ability is > Turbolinux. Somebody better qualified than I am might like to try cloning to > FreeBSD the clustering architecture of Turbolinux. The clustering that TurboLinux does doesn't seem to be the sort of clustering Tim is looking for. TurboLinux seems to be going for high-availability while libraries like mpich/pvm/clusterit are designed for distributing CPU workloads amongst several nodes. The clustering the Sprite offers seems to be what he could use, but as you said it's been sort of dead for 6 years now. :( -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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