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- From: strnadl@tph04.tuwien.ac.at (Christoph F.Strnadl)
- Subject: SW for snake farms
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.105439.22750@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Keywords: cluster of snakes, load-balancing
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- Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Vienna
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:54:39 GMT
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- Snake-farm: a more or less loosely coupled bunge of snakes where one
- can share resources (e.g. balance the load over more
- machines,...)
-
- I understand that the concept of having a snake-farm is very con-
- venient. There are even some applications running on snakes which
- support such a farming, e.g. AVS lets you calculate the 3d-data on
- one machine, whereas the actual rendering and displaying of the
- data is done on a different one. I think (I'm no AVS specialist) that
- it is the AVS-software which does this balancing and sharing (and
- therefor, IMHO, I wouldn't exactly call that a 'farm', it's just
- a very smart program aware of executing remote procedures).
-
- Q: Is there any SW out there which would help us implement a snake
- farm for simple applications (from editing, compiling, linking
- to running small to big applications) ?
-
- A (possibly incorrect): HP intends to provide something like a task-
- broker, which does the necessery distributing.
-
- A (2nd one): NQS is available which provides a queueing system. Has
- NQS been successfully ported to HP7xx?
-
- A (3rd one): At the CERN computing center they have implemented a
- snake farm with 15 - 25 HP7xx's, but I don't know how they managed
- that.
-
- A (4th one): Also at CERN the have implemented a scalable heterogenous
- network based on the fast, proprietary UltraNet-Bus. This has
- taken them approx. 10 men-years of SW development. We don't have
- that resources (and knowledge, BTW).
-
- -cfs
-
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- Christoph F. Strnadl | The term 'politically correct', co-
- Institute for Theoretical Physics | opted by the white power elite as a
- TU Vienna, Austria | tool for attacking multiculturalism,
- email: strnadl@tph01.tuwien.ac.at | is no longer politically correct.
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