Subject: Re: Cluster of Sparcstation2's
To: None <tech-smp@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-smp
Date: 03/12/2001 03:08:23
In article <BDEJIJGCNJHLHNAOJCLPIELCCHAA.jjb41@cam.ac.uk>,
Joel Baker <jjb41@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

Look in pkgsrc for pvm3

christos

>Hi there,
>
>I've managed to get hold of several Sparcstation 2's and a couple of 1+'s
>and I've been happily using NetBSD on all of them with tremendous success. I
>would like to however to now investigate the possibilities of clustering
>them together in an SMP style so that they effectively work as one machine.
>I understand that the speed of the final result won't be astounding, but
>it's more the concept that I find interesting.
>I've been through the tech-smp archive, but it all seems to relate to true
>SMP (ie: multiple processors in the same machine) rather than this parallel
>processing approach.
>
>Is this sort of idea possible in NetBSD and if so, where do I begin! I
>understand that this can be done in Linux (Google etc.) but I'd prefer to
>use NetBSD obviously.
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>Joel.
>
>