Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:10:12PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >it might be possible to find some way to extend the work domain of an smp >system to stretch across machine lines, to jump across motherboards. Maybe >not to be global (huge latencies scare me away), but what about just going >3 feet, o

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:31:24 -0700 Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:03:54PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > >>> Well, I am, and I'm not, if you could ans

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:33:11 +0100 Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A system that is written to work in a clustered environment can fairly > easily be moved to run on an SMP machine, but it will do a lot of work > that is not necessary under SMP and thus not make very good use of the > ha

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:10:12 -0400 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not completely yet (I tend to be stubborn, if I carry this too far, tell me > in private mail and I will politely drop it). Your use cases show me the > differences in size, and *because* of the size, the differences in h

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:03:54PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > 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

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Julian Elischer
Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:03:54PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: Well, I am, and I'm not, if you could answer me one quiestion, then I would probably know for sure. What is the difference between our SMP and t

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:03:54PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> Well, I am, and I'm not, if you could answer me one quiestion, then I would >> probably know for sure. What is the difference between our SMP and the >> general i

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:03:54PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > Well, I am, and I'm not, if you could answer me one quiestion, then I would > probably know for sure. What is the difference between our SMP and the > general idea of clustering, as typified by Beowulf? I was under the > impression I

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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 n

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I have 4 computers, 1 big FreeBSD-current (4 x86 procs), 2 GentooLinux (1 >> is a dial AMD Opteron, the other a dual older

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:43:49PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> I have 4 computers, 1 big FreeBSD-current (4 x86 procs), 2 GentooLinux (1 >> is a dial AMD Opteron, the other a dual older x86), and 1 MacOSX (dual >> PPC). I was

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have 4 computers, 1 big FreeBSD-current (4 x86 procs), 2 GentooLinux (1 > is a dial AMD Opteron, the other a dual older x86), and 1 MacOSX (dual > PPC). I was thinking about looking for two it

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:43:49PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > I have 4 computers, 1 big FreeBSD-current (4 x86 procs), 2 GentooLinux (1 > is a dial AMD Opteron, the other a dual older x86), and 1 MacOSX (dual > PPC). I was thinking about looking for two items, I'm not sure if I want > one or both

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:43:49PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >I have 4 computers, 1 big FreeBSD-current (4 x86 procs), 2 GentooLinux (1 >is a dial AMD Opteron, the other a dual older x86), and 1 MacOSX (dual >PPC). I was thinking about looking for two items, I'm not sure if I want >one or both of

remote operation or admin

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have 4 computers, 1 big FreeBSD-current (4 x86 procs), 2 GentooLinux (1 is a dial AMD Opteron, the other a dual older x86), and 1 MacOSX (dual PPC). I was thinking about looking for two items, I'm not sure if I want one or both of them: either some