[rescue] IP over SCSI (was : Alpha/Sparc/NeXT/SGI to donate/sell)

[G W Adkins]

This is something that deserves it's own thread.

I think that IP over SCSI has excellent possibilities as a cluster
interconnect.
It would be well worth the effort to try this out, whether under NetBSD or
(akkk..) Linux...

George

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hechinger" <wonko at arkham.ws>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Alpha/Sparc/NeXT/SGI to donate/sell


> On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:15:35AM -0400, G W Adkins wrote:
> > >Find me cheap power and I'll beawulf 128 ss2's for a high school.
> >
> > Strange you should mention this, I came up with a scheme to cluster
Sparc
> > 2's in 8's using SCSI as a cluster interconnect...
>
> funny you should mention that, the IP over SCSI discussion gets resurected
on
> the NetBSD/vax mailing list every once in a while (it just did a couple of
> weeks ago).
>
> the biggest limitation so far seems to be that NetBSD doesn't support
running
> the scsi controller in target mode and no-one has stepped up to the plate
to
> add that ability.  i would if i had the coding skills, which i don't.  :(
>
> -brian
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