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From: dfh@ecsvax.UUCP (David Hinnant)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: csh hacks for distrib. proc. system - where did I read this?
Message-ID: <3896@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 13:10:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 13:10:33 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 04:45:56 EDT
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc.
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Keywords: initial placement distributed processing

Not to be too vague, but I read somewhere (possibly ACM Communications,
possibly IEEE transactions, possibly not) about 6 months ago (more or
less) of some research done somewhere (possibly UC-Berkeley) with a
network of Sun workstations where the C shell was hacked to do initial
process placement across a network.  For example, if my machine was
busy to run my nroff job, the C shell would poke around over the
network to see who was less busy and try to farm out the task there.

Of course, I may have been imagining this since I obviously don't remember
a whole lot of the details.  Any pointers to this paper are appreciated.


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