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From: narayan@cs.iastate.edu (Pankaj Narayan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Questions: mutiple servers poss.??
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Date: 11 Jan 90 20:37:58 GMT
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I'm a novice at X, and have a few elementary questions:

1. I'm running a program that draws a curve for the Normal Distribution 
   split in three windows, so that each of the windows contains 1/3rd of 
   the curve.
	Well, now I want to have each of these windows to appear on a 
	different machine's console....I can get all 3 together to go
	someplace by simply setting up the DISPLAY var to be that remote
	machine name; but here I want to put EACH window on a different
	display----choose 3 servers within one program, as it were.

	Question is: can I do this, and if so, how ? 

2. I want to have a program running that will distribute the workload to
   three separate machines, where each machine computes that part of the
   curve that is meant to be drawn to ONE (of the 3, as above) of the
   windows. I realize I can run 3 different programs at the 3 machines,
   connecting to the same server to get 3 windows on one display, but I'd
   like to have one program that actually distributes the work; are there
   X window primitives that support this, or does anyone know of any method
   to do this in UNIX (on Sun's across an Ethernet) ??

Please e-mail or post whichever is more convenient.

thanks

pankaj narayan
iowa state univ.