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From: menges@unc.UUCP (John Menges)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Off-loading processes to an idle machine
Message-ID: <248@unc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 13:20:56 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.248
Posted: Thu Mar 21 13:20:56 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Mar-85 03:01:05 EST
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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I'm studying the problem of attempting to off-load
non-interactive processes from one machine intended
to be used primarily for interactive work for many
users to another machine intended to run non-interactive
tasks.  (Both machines are VAX/780s running 4.2bsd) 
I'm interested in any work that has been done in this
area.  In particular, I would like to find or write
software to enable the transfer of files to the backend
machine, execution of a command script there, and
transfer of files back to the interactive machine,
without it being necessary for the user to have a login
on the backend machine.  Less general software that
performs this task for specific commands (e.g. troff)
would also be helpful.