Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:16:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? Message-ID: <199504182116.OAA04916@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199504182047.NAA04963@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=" at Apr 18, 95 01:47:50 pm
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don't forget to mention booting off the network, and the 'over-the-net' install that means you will only need a floppy (or less) to install a machine.. (or as we have done here...) boot off the net, install onto hard-drive.. > > Our research group (NOW, short for Network of Workstations, doing > research on a parallel computing environment to replace MPPs) are now > discussing for a possible extension of horizon to PCs. Of course, I > think this is a good chance to have them realize that they can get > "commercial-grade" (no flames please, note the quotes) BSD operating > systems on fast, inexpensive computers. (also ask if SCSI communication between machines for large data migrations might be of interest..) get a pentium/90 system and the 100MB enet, with 32MB ram and on-board NCR scsi, and IDE, and you could SCSI-cluster 8 machines (16 for wide) and connect the clusters with 100MB enet ! > > The next group meeting is on Thursday, so I need to make some quick > preperation. I'm the only FreeBSD proponent in the group, there are > several Linux users, and the rest are "workstation > PC" people. > work on the price of the WS vs the Price of a good PC and point out you can get free CDs (: > So, if you have any documentation or list of caveats and emptors > (pardon my Latin), I'd like to hear from you. Anything will be fine, > of course I won't merely reuse them, I just need examples and list of > things to consider. > > Also, if people are aware of high-end network components supported by > FreeBSD, it will be great. I've found something about the DEC 21140 > based chip in the mail archive, is the driver fully functional now? > How much does it cost? (Those kinds of questions.) Same goes to the > FDDI driver. > > Note that this will be a HUGE project, which might go up to the order > of thousands. The main discussion topic is like "hundreds of > workstations or thousands of PCs?". better modelling of large clusters with more but cheaper machines :) talk to Rod about the absolute cheapest pentium/486DX4 based systems.. I assume they will be 'rack mounted?' sounds like fun.. where are you doing this? (got room for outsiders? :) > > Thanks! > > Satoshi >
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