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A New List For Clustering NetBSD

Posted by Hemos on Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:03 AM
from the collect-'em-together dept.
Operating Systems BSD
jschauma writes "The NetBSD Project has created a new mailing list, tech-cluster. As the name suggests, this list is intended for technical discussions on building and using clusters of NetBSD hosts. Initially, this list is expected to be of low volume, but we hope to advocate and advance the use of NetBSD in such environments significantly. Subscription is via majordomo -- please see this page for details."
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  • Oh good! (Score:5, Funny)

    by captainbonehead (512703) on Monday October 20 2003, @11:34AM (#7261201)
    Now I can learn how to build a cluster out of all of those Timex data watches, palms, and toasters cluttering my basement ...
  • Seems cool. Nothing beats having a bunch of daemons chewing at your data.

  • Multiple Platforms (Score:4, Interesting)

    by agent dero (680753) on Monday October 20 2003, @05:14PM (#7264440) Homepage
    Something i'd like to figure out, while I don't run NetBSD personally, how viable it would be to run a cluster of various platforms, for example a couple of macPPC, x-86, and UltraSPARC computers running as a netBSD cluster.

    Would NetBSD be able to overcome these big platform differences?

    • Re:Multiple Platforms (Score:3, Informative)

      by Noryungi (70322)
      how viable it would be to run a cluster of various platforms, for example a couple of macPPC, x-86, and UltraSPARC computers running as a netBSD cluster. Would NetBSD be able to overcome these big platform differences?

      Actually, yes. While I am not a specialist of NetBSD, it runs very well on all these machines -- I had a doubt about the UltraSPARC, then I read this [netbsd.org].

      The only thing that would be slightly different between these platforms would be the installation procedure, and even that procedure is fairl

      • Re:Multiple Platforms (Score:4, Insightful)

        by serial frame (236591) on Tuesday October 21 2003, @06:31PM (#7276480)
        For clarification, I believe he was insinuating that NetBSD already runs on those platforms. His question is, of course, will several machines of different processor types be able to share and distribute processor time? For the time being, that answer is, unfortunately, no. However, if we are talking storage clusters, then yeah, everything would work out just fine.
  • Are there any projects like OpenMOSIX/MOSIX for *bsd?

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