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FreeBSD Multimedia

FreeBSD Multimedia Resources List

Links on this page refer to multimedia resources (podcast, vodcast, audio recordings, video recordings, photos) related to FreeBSD or of interest for FreeBSD users.

This list is available as chronological overview, as a tag cloud and via the sources.

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If you know any resources not listed here, or notice any dead links, please send details to Edwin Groothuis so that it can be included or updated.

Tag: cluster

• FreeBSD, Building a Computing Cluster
  Source: YouTube bsdconferences channel
  Added: 06 December 2008
  Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2007, freebsd, cluster, performance, brooks davis
  Flash (47:51)
  

  "Reflections on Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster using FreeBSD", Brooks Davis at MeetBSD 2007 in Warsaw, Poland.
  clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpsRb9fJ4Ds

• Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability, Brooks Davis, MeetBSD 2008
  Source: YouTube bsdconferences channel
  Added: 06 December 2008
  Tags: youtube, meetbsd, meetbsd2008, cluster, performance, brooks davis
  Flash (43:40)
  

  Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability by Brooks Davis, The Aerospace Corporation, MeetBSD November 15, 2008
  clive URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uBFLJm7IHc

• EuroBSDCon 2008 - Brooks Davis - Isolating cluster jobs for performance and predictability
  Source: EuroBSDCon
  Added: 22 October 2008
  Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2008, freebsd, cluster, brooks davis
  MP3 (1 byte, 51 minutes), OGG (1 byte, 51 minutes), PDF (1 byte, n pages)
  

  The Aerospace Corporation operates a federally funded research and development center in support of national-security, civil and commercial space programs. Many of our 2400+ engineers use a variety of computing technologies to support their work. Applications range from small models which are easily handled by desktops to parameter studies involving thousands of cpu hours and traditional, large scale parallel codes such as computational fluid dynamics and molecular modeling applications. Our primary resources used to support these large applications are computing clusters. Our current primary cluster, the Fellowship cluster consists of 352 dual-processor nodes with a total of 14xx cores. Two additional clusters, beginning at 150 dual-processor nodes each are being constructed to augment Fellowship. As in In any multiuser computing environment with limited resources, user competition for resources is a significant burden. Users want everything they need to do their job, right now. Unfortunately, other users may need those resources at the same time. Thus, systems to arbitrate this resource contention are necessary. On Fellowship we have deployed the Sun Grid Engine scheduler which scheduled batch jobs across the nodes. In the next section we discuss the performance problems that can occur when sharing resources in a high performance computing cluster. We then discuss range of possibilities to address these problems. We then explain the solutions we are investigating and describe our experiments with them. We then conclude with a discussion of future work.

• MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation
  Source: MeetBSD
  Added: 19 November 2008
  Tags: meetbsd, meetbsd2008, freebsd, presentations
  FreeBSD Foundation Update & Recognition by Robert Watson (3.2 Mb, 8 pages), BSD Certification by Dru Lavigne (80 Kb, 19 pages), Crypto Acceleration by Philip Paeps (256 Kb, 20 pages), "Help, my system is slow!" Profiling tools, tips and tricks by Kris Kennaway (172 Kb, 29 pages), Embedding FreeBSD by M. Warner Losh (685 Kb, 31 pages), Isilon and FreeBSD by Zach Loafman (136 Kb, 25 pages), Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability by Brooks Davis (900 Kb, 24 pages), PC-BSD 7 - A Developer's Perspective by Kris Moore (580 Kb, 45 pages), FreeBSD Network Stack Performance - Optimizations for Modern Hardware by Robert Watson (5.5 Mb, 43 pages), A closer look at the ZFS file system by Pawel Jakub Dawidek (470 Kb, 45 pages)
  

  MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

• Brooks Davis - Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability
  Source: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
  Added: 25 May 2009
  Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2009, presentation, freebsd, cluster, brooks davis
  Slides (1.4 Mb, 27 pages)
  

  Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability

  At The Aerospace Corporation, we run a large FreeBSD based computing cluster to support engineering applications. These applications come in all shapes, sizes, and qualities of implementation. To support them and our diverse userbase we have been searching for ways to isolate jobs from one another in ways that are more effective than Unix time sharing and more fine grained than allocating whole nodes to jobs.

  In this talk we discuss the problem space and our efforts so far. These efforts include implementation of partial file systems virtualization and CPU isolation using CPU sets.