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Date:      Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:21:58 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To:        Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@yahoo.com>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fabi=E1n_Salamanca?= <dhrcorp@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: clustering code
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110142117320.31470-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <20011015023651.45884.qmail@web11403.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Rayson Ho wrote:

> http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/

A collection of some really bad ideas, not likely to scale well. Note that
they've got up to 30 nodes, wow. Double it once and that's where this kind
of "global everything" idea starts to fall over. Badly.

It would be neat to see freebsd do something really new and novel in
clustering. ssci-linux is not it. It's going to be very hard to pick
something new, a lot of the ground is well-trod.

For other examples of what you can do (maybe not what you SHOULD do) see
npaci ROCKS, OSCAR, and follow the references from there.

On the should-do list, see plan 9 -- (on plan 9 I tend to sound like a
broken record) read and understand the Plan 9 stuff, see how well it would
work as a cluster technology (we have a 32-node plan 9 cluster here, it's
quite cool), and see about bringing those neat ideas to freebsd.

ron


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