High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

[Bruce Cran]

David Robillard wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Gerardo Paredes
> <gerardon_paredes at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> From what i have read, Matt Olander and Brooks Davis are the foremost experts at cluster building on FreeBSD. However i believe a document needs to be written explaining in detailed steps how to do it, so the common user can do it. Obviously not every "common" man needs a cluster.
>>
>> In my case i am pitching the project of a big cluster to our University here in Honduras to run some kinds of apps we have, like a Trade Exchange Market Simulation written in Python we have about two years developing which we plan to run distributed across the cluster.
>>
>>
>> Since I cannot attend that seminar, i will be expecting for at least the presentation to be posted.
>>     
>
> Actually, this was a presentation I attended last year. So the slides
> already exist. You can also grab their old paper at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ but this is a bit
> out-dated.
>
> My advice would be to try and contact Mr. Brooks Davis directly. If
> you can't find him, try and send an email to the organisers of BSDCan
> from http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/contact.php. I believe you should talk
> to Dan Langille on the BSDCan commitee
> http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/committee.php
>
> Good luck and have fun! Your project seems quite interesting :)
>
> David
>   

It seems the same presentation was given at AsiaBSDCon 2007: it's linked 
to from
http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/index.html

The slides are at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-slides.pdf and 
the paper is at
http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-paper.pdf

-- 
Bruce Cran