Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 12:47:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de (Ariel Burbaickij) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: various questions(clustering,encrypted fs) Message-ID: <199911071747.MAA35333@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911071225330.14250-100000@sun33> from Ariel Burbaickij at "Nov 7, 1999 12:32:24 pm"
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Ariel Burbaickij wrote,
> Does something simmilar to Beowulf exist?Was any experiments undertaken
> with clustering of fbsd boxes?Does any source of information exist?
> The second question is to wheather fbsd supports encrypted filesystems
> In case it does is the support included in international version of fbsd?
Beowulf, contrary to some popular belief, is not Linux specific. Nor
is it even a specific software package. The most of the essential
pieces you need to build a Beowulf, like PVM (pvm) and MPI (mpich),
are in the ports. Note this from a Beowulf FAQ,
"1. What's a Beowulf? [1999-05-13]
It's a kind of high-performance massively parallel computer built
primarily out of commodity hardware components, running a free-software
operating system like Linux or FreeBSD, interconnected by a private
^^^^^^^
high-speed network. It consists of a cluster of PCs or workstations
dedicated to running high-performance computing tasks. The nodes in
the cluster don't sit on people's desks; they are dedicated to running
cluster jobs. It is usually connected to the outside world through
only a single node."
You are going to have to search on your own for more specific info,
but it is probably out there.
As for the encrypted filesystem question, several other threads seem
to have covered that very recently.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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