Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on
FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that
they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to know if I wanted
to donate, or words to that affect.
In any case, would that refer to donating an actual computer, or simply
donating computer time? I have three computers, only one running FreeBSD
at this time. I certainly am not going to give away any of my computers,
but I would be willing to share time on one of them if that would help.
What would be useful is multiple (e.g. at least half a dozen) fast machines with good network connectivity. Individual machines aren't much help, I'm afraid. Thanks for the offer though.
kris
Sorry to jump in both uninvited, and late...and, to boot, with just so much theoretical hogwash; I thought it might be of interest to the discussion at hand.
I've been getting more interested in clustering. With all the "hoopla" (as it were) about BSD clusters, would one fast cluster do this task? (i.e., could you build packages over MPI?)
Not that I have 'em, but my server farm is growing faster than my hosting business... and I'm hoping to get situated with a faster connection soon.
Heh, if it can work that way, maybe we should beg from Matt or Brooks? :-D
Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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Unless something _huge_ has changed fundamentally in the way MPI is implemented- nope, it wouldn't help, without huge amounts of work. Did a development project years ago that looked like a cluster would be useful, but it was for an existing app- which would have been quite a bit of work to segregate tasks into easily distributed 'chunks.'
Something along the lines of 'distcc' would likely be of more immediate use for a compile farm...
Scott
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