From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 6 18:24:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA14124 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr08.primenet.com (tlambert@usr08.primenet.com [206.165.6.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA14119 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:24:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00826; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:23:05 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710070123.SAA00826@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD To: jbryant@tfs.net Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 01:23:05 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710062115.QAA04353@argus.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Oct 6, 97 04:15:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I vote for "Legion", because of the obvious tip of the hat to Chuck... > > No. Reasons: read bible, or watch Red Dwarf episode by same name, in > neither of which was the character Legion very successful. Heh. The first was not successful because of a priveledged user override. The second wasn't successful because it didn't have memory protection. ;-). Unfortunately, if you are looking for a cool name, you are going to be reusing one. The latest incarnation appears to be "Javelin", a loosely coupled, massively parallel JVM type thing. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.