what's unix and what's not

[Nigel Weeks]

If you're after 'SSI' (Single Server Image), then you're in for some work on
FreeBSD.

The patches from the Mosix group could be ported, but it'd be hard work.
DragonFlyBSD has a distant goal to include between-machine messaging for
process migration, but I'd say you need one now.

If they'd handle a master/slave cluster, MPI, PVM, Ganglia(for monitoring),
and the new framework under Seti at home(BOINC) will run with the least amount
of work.

Out of the box:
Clusterit (/usr/ports/net/clusterit) gives some handy functionailty.
PVM (/usr/ports/net/pvm) runs brilliantly
MPI (/usr/ports/net/lam, /usr/ports/net/mpich) are popular, powerful methods


I'm into clusters too. I can't wait to do a `top` on a FreeBSD box, and see
processors 0 - 63 busy...

Ps. I'm not calling you a zealot. Just be careful recommending to others too
loudly.
It's a quick and easy way to get discredited.

Pps. I have an Israeli heritage. They write great code.

N.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of .VWV.
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:49
> To: freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Re: what's unix and what's not
> 
> 
> 
> I send you all of my most sincere thanks. I have also read 
> some strings linking to israelian developers. I have no 
> problems with israelian products, being a mechanics-lover, I 
> trust their solutions for defensive weapons. I'm not a 
> zealot, I have simply made my choice for the future.
> 
> I would also like to offer a valid alternative for the 
> symmetric-multiprocessor system at the local centre of 
> calculation of the university. The system is a 'power' 
> architecture mainframe of IBM. I have read FreeBSD is not 
> ready for this purposes.
> 
> I hope I'm wrong, because I also trust FreeBSD for 
> calculation machines, even if I know its specialty are the 
> internet and the database services.
> 
> .VWV.
> 
> Nigel Weeks wrote:
> > Careful.
> > Mosix(aka OpenMosix) is a patch to a generic Linux kernel - 
> hardly a 
> > variant.
> >
> > There were/are distro's based on this mod - the distro is 
> not where it 
> > started. Mosix actually started on BSD/OS...at an Israeli 
> > University...
> >
> > Don't get yourself labelled a Zealot - it's the worst thing 
> you could 
> > do...
> >
> > N.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org mailing list 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free> bsd-advocacy
> To 
> unsubscribe, send any mail to 
> "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>