OpenBSD does a good job with web serving. I have two Sun Blades that run openbsd/sparc64. But do you really think it matches up with FreeBSD? I know my router will be openbsd (that's a given), but I'm sure how well OpenBSD performs under many threads. I guess it comes down to how much RAM you have in the end, right?
Vivek On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Will Maier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vivek- > > This has gone decidedly off topic... > > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 12:05:35PM -0700, Vivek Ayer wrote: >> I was going to start small given the budget I have. Eventually, I'd >> like dedicate a gigabit switch for HTTP traffic and Infiniband for >> compute traffic. At first, I don't expect too much MPI work to be >> done, but I've heard FreeBSD performing better under duress than linux >> as the number of HTTP threads increases. > [...] >> The final option would be to divide and conquer: 6 for HTTP, 6 for >> computing, but my reasoning is why not scale for HTTP as much as >> possible. > > This is really the only reasonable approach. No one would run a > production web service on top of a parallel computing cluster unless > they had to. Remember that your execute nodes will run random jobs from > random users -- do you want that on a box that hosts a critical database > or webserver? The scenario is worse if you participate on a grid. > > As always, use the best tool for the job. As you've noticed, OpenBSD > will do well managing your network. Frankly, in most cases it also > makes for an excellent database or webserver. As for the execute nodes, > run Linux on them unless you have some reason (user requirements, > demonstrated performance gains, etc) to do otherwise. > > -- > > o--------------------------{ Will Maier }--------------------------o > | web:.......http://www.lfod.us/ | [email protected] | > *---------------------[ BSD: Live Free or Die ]--------------------*
