I recently spoke with a sales rep/developer from Data Synapse, one of the more established providers of grid systems. If you guys are interested, I'd be glad to share what I found regarding implementation notes, production-world use and a relative comparison of features. If anyone else has had a talk with similar companies, I'd love to compare notes.
Regarding the Hierarchical Grids, most commercial providers have this feature. It's purpose is in identifying IT costs within large organizations (ie - computing usage per sub-group within a company). One of Alchemi's features is the ability to track usage per grid user as a way to identify a particular user's "cost" of computing. This seems in line with the purpose of a hierarchical grid, so it makes sense to include that functionality as well. On another note, is it a goal of the Alchemi team to produce a commercial-ready software system or is it meant as a test-bed to explore algorithms/approaches within the distributed computing space? - Luis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Krishna Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 3:50 AM To: Jonathan Mitchem Cc: Ronnie LEE; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Alchemi-developers] Re: [Alchemi-users] How to string all the alchemi implmentations together Hi Jonathan, It will take around a month of work, to enable heirarchical managers and test it well enough to be given out online. However, the concept of hierarchical managers itself is one which we are debating in our research lab at the moment , and a P2P based architecture seems to be finding favor among most people here. But implementing the p2p architecture will take much much longer, with a directly, a search algorithm and all that (escpecially considering that we, as a research group will need to do better than existing systems/algorithms, so we can push for something novel / better). Cheers Krishna Jonathan Mitchem wrote: >Ronnie - > >If my understanding is correct, you can designate one server to be the >top-level manager, and you can set up every other manager to connect >to that manager as an "intermediate manager". Each application >submitted should connect (via however many layers) to the top level >manager which then distributes the threads appropriately to all the >base level executors. > >Take a look at Figure 4a in the following document: >http://alchemi.net/files/alchemi_techreport.pdf > >However, it appears that the ability to do this is disabled in the >v1.0.0 release of Alchemi. > >(Tibor, Krishna, others: What's it going to take to get this working?) > > >Jonathan > >On 2/9/06, Ronnie LEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>If each organisation sets up their own Alchemi installation, how can we >>string them up when we want to harness the entire set up? >> >>ronnie >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------- >>This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files >>for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >>searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >>http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=1216 42 >>_______________________________________________ >>alchemi-users mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alchemi-users >> >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files >for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=k&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 >_______________________________________________ >Alchemi-developers mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alchemi-developers > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ alchemi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alchemi-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ alchemi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alchemi-users
