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From: werner@aphrodite.inesc.pt (Werner Hans Peter Vogels)
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Subject: Re: Multiprocessing via sockets
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Date: 13 Mar 91 09:04:54 GMT
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In article <4306@skye.ed.ac.uk>, rbs@bute.ed.aiai (Robert Scott) writes:
|> I'm trying to turn a network of Sun4s in a multiprocessor executing a
|> parallel language.
|> 
......
|> 
|> I want to generalise the system. I want an unlimited number of machine to
|> be able to communicate. I can see that on each machine I need to create
|> an array of sockets of length N (the number of machines) so that each machine
|> can talk directly to any other.
|> How do I do this cleanly? 
|> 


I would advise you to look into the world of distributed computing (atomicy,
broadcast/multicast protocols, workboard algoritmes etc) before you go
any further.

It would be a good thing if you also looked into the ISIS toolkit from Cornell
University wich gives you must of the tools you need for distributed computing
under UNIX.

Werner Vogels (werner@inesc.inesc.pt)
INESC - Distributed Systems Group
Lisboa - Portugal