On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:01:45PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > What is most important in my considerations are, how might it to possible > to stretch our present smp software to be able to extend the management > domains to cover multiple computers? Some sort of a bridge here, because > there is no software today (that I'm awarae of, and that sure leaves a huge > set of holes) that lets you manage the cores as separate computers) so that > maybe today I might be able to have an 8 or 10 core system, and maybe > tomorrow look at the economic and software possibility of having a 256 core > system. I figure that there would need to be some tight reins on latency, > and you would want some BIGTIME comm links, I dunno, maybe not be able to > use even Gigabit ethernet, maybe needing some sort of scsi bus linkage, > something on that scale? Or, is Fiber getting to that range yet? > > Anyhow, is it even remotely posible for us to be able to strech our present > SMP software (even with it's limitation on word size to limit the range to > 32 processors) to be able to jump across machines? That would be one hell > of a huge thing to consider, now wouldn't it?
Ahh, you're talking about parallel computing, "clustering", or "grid computing". The Linux folks often refer to an implementation called Beowulf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_%28computing%29 I was also able to find these, more specific to the BSDs: http://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/myths.html#clustering http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-cluster/2006-June/000292.html http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/fbsdcluster/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
