From: wheeler@cipr.remove.rpi.edu (Frederick W. Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: simple, distributed computing
Date: 20 Dec 1998 06:45:51 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu
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Originator: bigrigg@ece.cmu.edu


I wrote a ksh script to do this sort of thing in a unix environment.
I don't know whether it would be usable under NT, but it might give
you some ideas.  You can find the script at
<www.cipr.rpi.edu/wheeler/dish>.  I would be very interested in
hearing about any other similar programs available.

Regards,
Fred Wheeler

teds@intex.com writes:
> I had a question on what people would recommend as a way to distribute
> jobs in an environment of 100 computers or so.  I have a big loop
> and each iteration is independent of the other.
> A natural thing would be to distribute each independent job to each of
> the 100 computers, combine
> the results, and continue on with my program.  I could set this up
> with a bunch of Perl scripts but was wondering whether there are other options
> out there to setup the job distribution and what would be the easiest
> way to combine results (basically the results are just the average of
> the results of each iteration).
> I am currently running in a networked NT environment.

-- 
Fred Wheeler
wheeler (at) cipr.rpi.edu
www.cipr.rpi.edu/wheeler

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