On 1/1/11, Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/31/10 17:16, Super Bisquit wrote: >> I have two sunblade 1000's. One has two CPUs and the other one. >> What I'd like to do is use both by connecting one to the other through a >> NIC. >> 1) Is there a howto for doing such with the sunblade? > > no...nothing special or unique here. I wasn't sure. Thanks. > >> 2) What NIC- 10/100/1000 would I need? > > any. Including the one on the blade1000 > >> I think this is somewhat similar to clustering but am not sure. > > Cluster: a word that means whatever you want it to mean. Me? I prefer > to follow it with a favorite four letter word. Yes, foda- Portuguese version of the same- is fun to say. > If you follow my > meaning, it makes your job really easy, as the less planning and effort > you put into it, the closer you can hit my meaning. To hit it perfectly > requires adding some inept management. > > Put the following line in rc.local, if it makes you feel good: > > echo "Cluster active" If it doesn't do any good, then ok. > >> Why do I want to do this? >> 1.) I only have one monitor between both boxes. >> 2.) I want to use both boxes simultaneously. > > define "use"...
Distribute the workload between the two boxes. It's a lot easier then moving the spare cpu around. > > put the monitor and keyboard on one, load it up, move monitor and > keyboard to other, load it up, ssh from the one with the > keyboard/monitor to the one without. Do whatever you need/wish/want to > do with both machines now. > > I suspect many, if not most OpenBSD users are familiar with using boxes > by remote, it is something that Unix does well, and Sun systems even > better than most (cross-connect your serial ports, and you can skip the > move-the-monitor thing). My apologies. I forget. Look, I'm happy just to get these things running. I picked up both of them plus two drives for $175 off of ebay from three purchases. Nothing else would properly run on it. The only adjustment for OpenBSD was making a partial xorg.conf following the readme and an old mailing list thread. I have an ethernet cable- RJ45?? Not sure of the name- adapter on the serial port of one. Can I use that and connect to the NIC/gem0 of the other? > > If you are trying to bolt the two machines together so they magically > have the power of both systems combined into one... that's not how it > works. I didn't know this. Thanks for informing me. And, no, there is no sarcasm here. It's a genuine thanks. > To use three processors like you have, you have to have three > busy tasks. Since the three CPUs are spread across two boxes, you also > have to be able to split the tasks between boxes. Again, nothing really > Uniquely OpenBSD (or Blade 1000, or Unix or ...) here. Give me some time, if you would. Again, I'm happy to be able to have these machines. I like RISC performance over the normal x86/amd64. PowerPC has proved to be better and so far the performance is the same fr the UltraSPARC. I'm amazed at how cool it stays. I've talked too much. My apologies. Again a genuine thanks. > > Nick.
