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To: ken@plutotech.com, tlambert@primenet.com
Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD
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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.