From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 7 20:33:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA14662 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 20:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from onyx.atipa.com (user20046@ns.atipa.com [208.128.22.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA14657 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 20:33:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 1018); 8 Oct 1997 03:38:18 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:38:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa X-Sender: freebsd@dot.ishiboo.com To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <5361.876213747@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ...so if we wanted to draw some nifty insect > analogies for massive distributed parallelism then I guess we could > call such a cluster a "FreeBSD plague", or "a plague of FreeBSD > machines." This would lead in turn to some pretty nifty sound bites, > such as "Got plague?" or "The FreeBSD plague: Catch it today!" > Yeah, I like it! It's got legs, gents! Let's do it!! Let's... > What? I should stick to engineering, you say? But it's so *catchy*, > I mean, haha, consider just the pun opportunities! No? Well fine, be > that way then! [*sulk*] My favorite quote from English class: "Avoid cliche's like the Plague..." Kevin