From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 19:33:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org 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 39CFB16A421 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:33:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22BC143D45 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:33:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jA8JXRG1046080; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:33:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4370FD83.3000500@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 13:33:23 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051021 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick I References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/1166/Mon Nov 7 13:01:45 2005 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backbone of a large-file streaming system X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:33:37 -0000 Nick I wrote: > Hi, > I help maintain a Web site at > www.clusterbuilder.org. > You might have seen before that I have a section called Ask the Cluster > Expert, where I am building a knowledgebase of cluster and grid information. > When someone asks a question I am researching the answer to build this > knowledgebase out. I received the following question: > > *"I am looking for a variety of solutions to be a backbone of a large-file > streaming system providing thousands of concurrent download streams. > Preferably commodity hardware and Linux, though I'm open to commercial > solutions."* > > I am wondering if anyone here has suggestions of what applications will work > best for this type of setup. You can respond to the question at > www.clusterbuilder.org/FAQ > or respond in email. I suppose the answer depends on the protocol used for the streaming downloads. Assuming HTTP, apache on a FreeBSD server should handle this nicely. Example is ftp.cdrom.com. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------