From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 2 13:12:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873CF37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:12:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from out013.verizon.net (out013pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3BD743EC5 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:12:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from res03db2@verizon.net) Received: from verizon.net ([4.47.69.229]) by out013.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20030102211226.JEOM24476.out013.verizon.net@verizon.net>; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:12:26 -0600 Received: (from res03db2@localhost) by verizon.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA22721; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:13:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from res03db2) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:13:15 -0800 From: Robert Clark To: Darren Henderson Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mystery technologies? Message-ID: <20030102131315.A22650@darkstar.gte.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from darren@nighttide.net on Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:33:31PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sounds like the "grid computing" stuff that IBM was doing. [RC] On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:33:31PM -0400, Darren Henderson wrote: > > I just came across a banner ad on daemonnews that points to a service I'm > a bit perplexed by, http:/johncompanies.com/collocation/ > > It offers "A collocated FreeBSD 4.5 server, with one IP, and 2 gigabytes > of disk space" for $65 with 40Gb of transfer per month, tripple homed etc. > > Sounds nice but... "Our steep discounts are made possible by technology > that allows us to segment mainframe class servers into multiple, > independent servers - each on a completely autonomous system." I don't > believe I have heard of anyone porting FreeBSD to any big iron, perhaps > some old Alpha mainframes? But I haven't heard of folks running multiple > instances of the system on one box... > > It further claims each machine has at least four processors and many > gigabytes of ram. and "at any given moment you will have access to a large > majority of these resources" and further "This is because usage is highly > non-parallel, and because server instances can be transparently moved from > one physical server to the next." I'm not entirely sure what this is > saying... first it sounds like you will be sharing a single server with > others (jailed instances of the operating system maybe?) and in the next > its implying, to me at least, that the operating system is capable of > floating transparently across hardware clusters. > > Is this kind of stuff really out there? > > There are other curious statements, "We have in place sophisticated > methods of performance 'smoothing' between our host machines that allows us > to transparently place each server instance in an optimal performance > environment." Load balancing operating system instances? "...there is no > need to 'fsck' or otherwise maintain the filesystem after a crash." > > Anyone have any idea what these folks are doing or had any experience with > them? > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Darren Henderson darren@nighttide.net > > Help fight junk e-mail, visit http://www.cauce.org/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message