--XF85m9dhOBO43t/C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@yahoo.com> wrote: > A very good paper about building HPC clusters with FreeBSD: >=20 > "Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD" >=20 > http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ >=20 > The author talked about hardware issues: KVM, BIOS redirection, CPU > choices; and then talked about why he chose FreeBSD instead of Linux... > he also did the port of GridEngine (SGE) to FreeBSD. >=20 > Anyone tried to setup HPC clusters with *BSD?? I have a 30 node NetBSD/i386 cluster, and just recently created the tech-cluster@netbsd.org mailing list. Some people are working on a port of SGE to NetBSD, too. I hope to expand the awareness of NetBSD in particular for cluster usage in the near future. Some URLs of relevance: http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/hpcf/ http://www.netbsd.org/MailingLists/#tech-cluster http://www.netbsd.org/ http://eurobsdcon.org/papers/#souvatzis http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D03/10/20/1523252&mode=3Dthread&tid= =3D122&tid=3D185&tid=3D190 http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/11/05/1536226.shtml?tid=3D122&tid=3D185&tid= =3D190 -Jan --=20 Life," said Marvin, "don't talk to me about life." --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (NetBSD) iD8DBQE/qx4afFtkr68iakwRAlZaAKDNrRoIwtwjP9t4/eEfBEtpiv/p6ACgt5FR 9gGHhsjX+zJE9NeSwAwgLo8= =zUsX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C--