Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:14:34 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: David Robillard <david.robillard@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com Subject: Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster Message-ID: <48FE7E7A.2010509@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60810211320q47286a73qed76d44f76021f13@mail.gmail.com> References: <226ae0c60810210918xbd221c3q5a0926df66b2aa6f@mail.gmail.com> <608552.36336.qm@web65613.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <226ae0c60810211320q47286a73qed76d44f76021f13@mail.gmail.com>
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David Robillard wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Gerardo Paredes > <gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> From what i have read, Matt Olander and Brooks Davis are the foremost experts at cluster building on FreeBSD. However i believe a document needs to be written explaining in detailed steps how to do it, so the common user can do it. Obviously not every "common" man needs a cluster. >> >> In my case i am pitching the project of a big cluster to our University here in Honduras to run some kinds of apps we have, like a Trade Exchange Market Simulation written in Python we have about two years developing which we plan to run distributed across the cluster. >> >> >> Since I cannot attend that seminar, i will be expecting for at least the presentation to be posted. >> > > Actually, this was a presentation I attended last year. So the slides > already exist. You can also grab their old paper at > http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ but this is a bit > out-dated. > > My advice would be to try and contact Mr. Brooks Davis directly. If > you can't find him, try and send an email to the organisers of BSDCan > from http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/contact.php. I believe you should talk > to Dan Langille on the BSDCan commitee > http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/committee.php > > Good luck and have fun! Your project seems quite interesting :) > > David > It seems the same presentation was given at AsiaBSDCon 2007: it's linked to from http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/index.html The slides are at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-slides.pdf and the paper is at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-paper.pdf -- Bruce Cran
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