Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:03:07 +0200 From: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at (marino.ladavac@siemens.at) To: ken@plutotech.com, tlambert@primenet.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD Message-ID: <199710080803.KAA19138@ws6423.gud.siemens.at>
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> From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 23:46:06 MET 1997
> From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD
> To: ken@plutotech.com (Kenneth Merry)
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:24:07 +0000 (GMT)
> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
>
> > > | > How about "The Swarm" then? It would have already been built had I
not
> > > | > bought myself a place to live instead. It had sort of a priority over
> > > | > toys :(
> > > |
> > > | Hmmm. Swarm. That makes me think of locusts, those industrious
> > > | little insects which often move from place to place in great numbers,
> > > | eating and overcoming all in their path.
> > >
> > > How about the 'Hive' then for a group of industrious hardworking insects
> > > working in harmony...
> >
> > The name 'Beehive' is already in use:
>
> Palanquin.
>
> It even has an obvious graphic: a bunch of BSD daemons at the cross
> members, carryuing it.
There is another one, obvious and probably taken, but:
Phalanx n. 1 (in ancient Greece) close formation, esp. of infantry ready
for battle.
The graphic should be obvious, too.
/Marino
>
>
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
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