From owner-freebsd-cluster Mon Jul 8 1:24:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D0937B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 01:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.nentec.de (gate2.nentec.de [194.25.215.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23B143E4A for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 01:24:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sporner@nentec.de) Received: from nenny.nentec.de (root@nenny.nentec.de [153.92.64.1]) by gate.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g688OYA07076; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:24:34 +0200 Received: from nentec.de (andromeda.nentec.de [153.92.64.34]) by nenny.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id g688OXZ00477; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:24:33 +0200 Message-ID: <3D294C41.6000708@nentec.de> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 10:24:33 +0200 From: Andy Sporner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: de-at, de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Lundy Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster project. References: <20020629230502.GA8106@drunkmonk.net> <20020708074200.GA3152@subterrain.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-perl11-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Justin Lundy wrote: >Definately interested. In particular I'd like to benchmark the actual >performance of distributed cryptanalysis and/or other CPU intensive >operations in a FreeBSD cluster environment (prime factorization and >password cracking). Up-to-date statistics like these would be valuable >to the security industry because they would demonstrate that future- >adaptable password schemes like that by Neils Provos are necessary since >PC hardware and clustering technologies are so cheaply accessible. > >I would like to contribute to documentation and code testing. > This is the *other* variety of clustering (BEOWULF). We are just doing application failover now and leaving the dispatching of requests to a scheduler of choice. However having hosts that recover from failure makes even the scheduler's work easier ;-) In Phase2 this will bring all of this together in cooperative process space. The ultimate goal is to be very VAX cluster like (it could do all these cool things!). If we can surpass this technology--great! (perhaps by having a nicer os! OOps this could be flame-bait!--please disregard). Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message