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Date:      Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:17:32 +0200
From:      lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at (marino.ladavac@siemens.at)
To:        tlambert@primenet.com, adrian@virginia.edu
Cc:        rminnich@sarnoff.com, dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199710070817.KAA21886@ws6423.gud.siemens.at>

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> From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct  6 22:43:43 MET 1997
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:29:38 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu>
> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
> Cc: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@sarnoff.com>, dcarmich@mcs.com,
        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
> 
> On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > > A cluster based on FreeBSD would
> > > I suppose have to have a different name, but we've done a lot of computing
> > > over the last three years with such a cluster: works fine. 
> > 
> > I vote for "Legion", because of the obvious tip of the hat to Chuck...
> 
> 	You don't mean "Legion" as in http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~legion/
> do you?  These folks while open to newer and better hardware, they also
> seem to have become stuck on linux because it's what they could in stall
> on their desktops with IDE cdroms a long time ago.  I tried to steer them 
> into the light, but....
> 
> 	The name is derivative from the Herbert's "Dune" books.  It's
> predecessor was "Mentat". 

How about "The Swarm" then?  It would have already been built had I not
bought myself a place to live instead.  It had sort of a priority over
toys :(

/Marino
> 
> 	Adrian
> --
> adrian@virginia.edu        ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, 
and
> System Administrator         --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer,
> Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD.  Think about it.....
> http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/     ->|      http://www.freebsd.org/
> 
> 



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