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+1  Q: 

Developing a distributed system as a grid

Has anyone had experience with developing a distributed system as a grid?

By grid, I mean, a distributed system where all nodes are identical and there is no central management, database etc.

How can the grid achieve even distribution of: CPU, Memory, Disk, Bandwidth etc.?

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Something akin to Plan9 perhaps?

wikipedia entry.

warren  2008-10-22 15:32:50
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What you're actually talking about is a cluster. There is a lot of software available for load balancing etc, even specific linux distros such as Rocks, which comes complete with MPI/PVM and monitoring tools built in.

alatkins  2009-06-25 03:22:56

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