From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 18:27:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA29438 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 18:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA29433 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 18:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem17.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.47]) by apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA00681; Thu, 15 May 1997 20:23:11 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <337BD197.430A@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 20:16:39 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Thorpe CC: "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD References: <199705151731.KAA21975@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jason Thorpe wrote: > > ...MOSIX is distributed as diffs against BSD/OS. The only .o files > should be the Myrinet drivers, which are source-available from Myricom. > Actually there could be something more, because they explicitly asked me if they were forced to include the sources ala GPL. The hard part is probably in the kernel patches, but the version they distribute (MO6) will crash if it finds more than six nodes. In their campus they run a cluster with 60 Pentiums and PPros. Pedro. > MOSIX doesn't require Myrinet, but the high-bandwidth provided by Myrinet > is nice for the process migration facility. > > Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov > NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 > NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 > Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939