Re: Beowulf cluster
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> M.C. Vernon wrote:
> > > Weren't some people from the beowolf team interested in switching
> > > to .deb or at least packaging new stuff also as .deb files?
> > >
> > > I'm sorry, but I lost track here.
> >
> > Hmm - does one need a beowulf in order to debianise the source?
>
> I thought beowulf cluster are binary compatible to regular boxes so I
> don't think you'd need a beowulf cluster in order to package things.
>
> > and if not then even my measly pick.sel (which approximates to the amount
> > of memory it has ;) ) could produce a .deb for rich people with
> > supercomputers everywhere?
>
> I don't understand.
Sorry - in my attempts to be ironic I failed to make myself clear. I was
offering to package beowulf as .deb, for people with the money to make
beowulf clusters. I then realised the irony of doing this on pick.sel ;)
HTH,
Matthew
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