Path: utzoo!dciem!client1!mmt
From: mmt@client1.DRETOR.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Multi-Sun Smalltalk
Keywords: distributed processing
Message-ID: <2849@client1.DRETOR.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 23:05:54 GMT
Organization: DCIEM, Toronto, Canada
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We are developing a simulation program under Objectworks 2.5 from ParcPlace,
and would like to be able to write it as a set of coupled modules, in which
messages are passed between objects running on different Ethernetted Suns.
Has anyone done this? If so, how?  We take as an example the networked
Mandelbrot program in C that some Suns have as a demo.  Processes are
spawned on the remote Suns, and the results reported back to the initiating
one.

If this kind of distribution is not possible, can one run instances of the
simulation simultaneously on several Suns, keeping the statistics of
their individual work on one of the Suns.

All the Suns will be licenced for Objectworks 2.5 (up to 8 of them).
-- 
Martin Taylor (mmt@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca ...!uunet!dciem!mmt) (416) 635-2048
If the universe transcends formal methods, it might be interesting.
     (Steven Ryan).