----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier%poofygoof.com@localhost> To: <tech-cluster%NetBSD.org@localhost> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:53 PM Subject: Re: heterogeneous clusters? > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:33:40PM -0400, Robert F. Schaefer wrote: > > Anyone working with clusters of machines that don't happen to have the > > same architecture, or older hardware like sun3/hp300/VAX? > > yup. I have a pile of DECStations, sparcs, alphas, a few vaxen, an > hp300, SGIs... since getting racks I actually have a chance of getting > them all up and running, and I even have a prototype application I'd > like to run. it's just the management bit I haven't figured out yet. Sounds like you're in a similar position to me. I'm thinking of placing boxs in strategic locations throughout the house, and running a distributed temperature-management app... ^_^ What dos your propotype do? Bob