Oooo! Beowulf sounds pretty nifty:
http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/beowulf-faq.txt
Hmmm, Plan 9 sounds interesting, but Beowulf runs on Linux and FreeBSD. Or the
Beowulf components and philosophies do.
Plan 9 would be something, though! Bell Labs has some great ideas:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html
Rather than offering each user a dedicated PC, the mouse/keyboard/monitor provide
access to the resources to the network. When someone logs in, that terminal
temporarily becomes 'personalized'. Bell Labs has rethought UNIX.
Maybe we can try both. Once familiar unix is clustered, and configured, having
nothing else to do with it, perhaps we tear it down and put up a Plan 9 network!
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 08:02:25PM -0800, Patrick R. Wade wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:06:19PM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> >
> >Hey Seth! Any word on those palets of computers that are itching to become a U/G/L
>super cluster?
>
> So were we thinking Beowulf, or Plan 9?
>
> --
> It's a hard work, being a network pusher. Your customers beep you in
> the middle of the night, hungry for another fix. But, what can you do?
> Customer satisfaction and all that crap...
> Pays good, though. --Ingvar the Grey, in the Monastery
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