A New List For Clustering NetBSD

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."

Re:A new mailing list is front page news??

[KDan]

Not quite. I think they're planning to have a separate front-page post for every ACK packet relayed by the BSD clustering mailing lists' smtp servers.

Daniel

Re:A new mailing list is front page news??

[Brandybuck]

Why not? We have to keep up with "One the Minute, Every Minute, Slashdot Linux coverage".

Re:A new mailing list is front page news??

[Jellybob]

Strange that would happen in the BSD section of the site really.

Yes, I'm nitpicking. Yes, I'm grouchy today.

Oh good!

[captainbonehead]

Now I can learn how to build a cluster out of all of those Timex data watches, palms, and toasters cluttering my basement ...

Re:Oh good!

[endx7]

Like they say, windows and NetBSD are toaster OSes.

Windows turns your computer into a toaster.

NetBSD turns your toaster into a computer.

Nice.

[noselasd]

Seems cool. Nothing beats having a bunch of daemons chewing at your data.

Multiple Platforms

[agent dero]

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

[Noryungi]

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

[serial frame]

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.

Mosix?

[DAldredge]

Are there any projects like OpenMOSIX/MOSIX for *bsd?