From owner-freebsd-cluster Wed Jul 10 1: 4:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70DF437B401 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beau.nrez.net (beau.nrez.net [165.64.255.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18DA143E64 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:04:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rmger@beau.nrez.net) Received: (from rmger@localhost) by beau.nrez.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6A88uH57021; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:08:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from rmger) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:08:56 -0700 From: Ryan Mansager To: Andy Sporner Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster project. Message-ID: <20020710080856.GA56793@beau.nrez.net> References: <20020629230502.GA8106@drunkmonk.net> <20020708074200.GA3152@subterrain.net> <3D294C41.6000708@nentec.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D294C41.6000708@nentec.de> Organization: Nrez.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ::hugs vms:: ehem...-r On Mon, 08 Jul 2002, Andy Sporner wrote: > Justin Lundy wrote: > > >Definately interested. In particular I'd like to benchmark the actual > >performance of distributed cryptanalysis and/or other CPU intensive > >operations in a FreeBSD cluster environment (prime factorization and > >password cracking). Up-to-date statistics like these would be valuable > >to the security industry because they would demonstrate that future- > >adaptable password schemes like that by Neils Provos are necessary since > >PC hardware and clustering technologies are so cheaply accessible. > > > >I would like to contribute to documentation and code testing. > > > This is the *other* variety of clustering (BEOWULF). We are just doing > application failover now and leaving the dispatching of requests to a > scheduler > of choice. However having hosts that recover from failure makes even the > scheduler's work easier ;-) > > In Phase2 this will bring all of this together in cooperative process space. > > The ultimate goal is to be very VAX cluster like (it could do all these > cool things!). If we can surpass this technology--great! (perhaps by > having a nicer os! OOps this could be flame-bait!--please disregard). > > > > Andy > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message