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. > 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. 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" > 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"... 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). 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. 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. Nick.
