Re: The next step: supercomputer via disparate nodes

1998-11-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Zack Brown wrote: ... 2) no node is more or less vital to the system than any other (!) 3) nodes can connect and disconnect at will [...] How will it deal with a net.split? 4) nodes can locally select to include or exclude jobs (via config file) initiated by particular users. PGP

The next step: supercomputer via disparate nodes

1998-11-05 Thread Zack Brown
Although this is not strictly on topic, it seems strongly related to a kind of kernel development. I checked out distributed.net, and they seem to have a much different approach to the question. They are more concerned with parcelling out portions of a task, not with making an actual usable