[Beowulf] bsd implementation?

Fred Youhanaie fly at anydata.co.uk
Tue May 8 05:22:15 PDT 2007


Mark Thompson wrote:
> I was wondering if linux was the only os that is practical to implement a
> beowulf cluster with...it seems to me that BSD would be good for this and I
> know dragonfly BSD is working toward providing this natively...my question
> is that what are the limitations presented when using BSD in clusters?

Mark,

Here is one example of a BSD based cluster from 2003, I expect things 
have moved on since then.

http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/fbsdcluster/

Cheers
f.



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