I have a question about user applications using broadcast on a LAN. I usually have several processes that connect via TCP/IP to a central server that solves some optimization problems. In more demanding project that I am working on now, I hope to distribute the optimization problem between 24 to 36 helper processes.
At the start of each optimization job, I will have a few data files that need to be distributed to each of the helper optimization processes. Rather than have the central optimizer / server send these files 24 times, some way to broadcast these files to all machines / processes at the same time might be nice. Is that the kind of thing that broadcasting could accomplish? And if so, and in a big picture way, how would one do it? An example of my network topology would be: TCP/IP server @ 192.168.1.40 4 helper processes @ 192.168.1.40 4 helper processes @ 192.168.1.41 4 helper processes @ 192.168.1.42 4 helper processes @ 192.168.1.43 4 helper processes @ 192.168.1.44 4 helper processes @ 192.168.1.45 Thanks for looking. Wayne _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
