Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:13:15 -0800 From: Robert Clark <res03db2@verizon.net> To: Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mystery technologies? Message-ID: <20030102131315.A22650@darkstar.gte.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0204121833110.13970-100000@jasper>; from darren@nighttide.net on Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:33:31PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0204121641320.13354-100000@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.44.0204121833110.13970-100000@jasper>
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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
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