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From: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis
Subject: ISIS for a distributed queueing system?
Message-ID: <818@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 89 23:49:14 GMT
Reply-To: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt)
Organization: University of Florida Quantum Theory Project
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We're installing MDQS as a batch queueing system on our network.  It
can handle submitting to queues on other machines via the network, but
only to specific machines.  We want to create a "distributed queueing
system" for the whole network where any host can submit a job to the
distributed queue, and jobs would be processed by the first available
compute server.

I've recently become aware of ISIS, and it appears to be quite capable
of something like this, but I wonder if this might be overkill?  I'm a
chemist, without too much experience in distributed programming as of
yet -- I would appreciate comments on the idea of using ISIS to
implement this distributed queue.  Is there anything simpler/better to
do it with? Has anyone done this kind of thing?

If it matters, we're presently running Suns, but that may change.
Odds are that everything we have will have NFS, RPC, and Yellow Pages,
at least.

Thanks.
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David Bernholdt			bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu
Quantum Theory Project		bernhold@ufpine.bitnet
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL  32611		904/392 6365