From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 4 18:24:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA28556 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:24:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA28426 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:24:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 16797 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Mar 1998 02:30:37 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-021598 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 18:30:37 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Robert Watson Subject: Re: Cluster? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Alex Povolotsky , "Ron G.Minnich" , Tom , Niall Smart Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04-Mar-98 Robert Watson wrote: .... > For clustered computational work, however, there are no debates about > performance :). Hiding clustering of network services as well as > retaining reliability is a very interesting problem -- perhaps use of a > NAT to do magic would help here? We conputed about 10-25 times slower memory access for database engine type work. This was with specialized hardware, with about 800MB/Sec node-node communications. Intelectually challenging project, though... ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message