Re: Clustering FreeBSD

[Matthew West]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:36:51PM +0000, Jamie Heckford wrote:
> Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included
> with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD?

Install the pvm port (ports/net/pvm) on the machines.

I've played around with this a bit, and it's quite fun to watch.
Check out the X11 fractal demo ("xep").

There's also a port of povray (ports/graphics/pvmpov) which uses PVM
to distribute it's processing.

Links:
http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu/ - Beowulf-style cluster using FreeBSD
http://www.beowulf.org/     - more Beowulf-style clusters
http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html &
http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/book/pvm-book.html - PVM information

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