From: Eric Parsons Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: simple, distributed computing Date: 30 Dec 1998 19:49:52 GMT Organization: University of Toronto Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <76e050$292$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ece.cmu.edu If you're interested in commercial solutions, Load Sharing Facility from Platform Computing (www.platform.com) offers a product to distribute applications on nodes, manage their execution, and collect their output. 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Parsons, Technical Advisor Nortel Technology, Dept. 0R24 Phone: [+1] 613 763-6632 PO Box 3511, Station C FAX: [+1] 613 763-4222 Ottawa, ON Email: eparsons@nortel.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel