Awesome, a quick glance through the cluster documentation shows that it might be what I was looking for. Many thanks for the response and link.
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 11:03:52 UTC+3, Akka Team wrote: > > Hi, > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:13 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I was reading about remoting, and there's something I can't quite figure >> out. From what I managed to understand, the idea is that I can specify an >> actor to be assigned to a specific host, and have it always run there, and >> all actor refs would behave appropriately. If not, then the actor would be >> created locally. >> > > What you mention is remote deployment, but that is not the main feature of > remoting. The most important task remoting handles is location > transparency, so whenever you have an ActorRef you don't need to care > whether the actor is local or remote, you just use the same send method. > > >> >> Is my understanding correct? If so, does akka support automatic scaling >> out? In other words, could akka behave like map-reduce, where a computation >> is automatically spread across multiple hosts? >> > > What you probably interested in is akka-cluster ( > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.2/scala/cluster-usage.html). That > supports various scale-out patterns. > > -Endre > > >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >> >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >> >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Akka User List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Akka Team > Typesafe - The software stack for applications that scale > Blog: letitcrash.com > Twitter: @akkateam > -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
