On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:36:20 -0800 
 Nathan Gelbard <gelbard@ENGR.ORST.EDU> wrote:

 > Has anyone ever used NetBSD in a distributed environment?
 > Imagine 100 Pentium II machines NetBSD+PVM (or something
 > else). Does NetBSD support HiPPI, ATM, or other
 > highspeed network interfaces?

There's a project here that is using PCs in a cluster environemnt.
I've been sort of fighting to get them to use NetBSD, but I'm not
really involved in the project, so :-)

Anyhow, NetBSD+PVM or NetBSD+MPI should be very feasible.  ATM is
currently supported by NetBSD (although, it only works with PVCs)..
it works with Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155 and Adaptec ATM cards.

Kevin Lahey has written a Hippi subsystem for the NetBSD network
stack, and a driver for the Essential Communications Roadrunner
Hippi interface (the Roadrunner is also used in gigabit ethernet
interfaces).  The driver won't be in 1.3, but will hopefully
be available shortly thereafter.

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