On 5/26/05, Laran Evans <lc278@cornell.edu> wrote:
Has any work been done to enable process group communication similar to
what Spread (spread.org), Ensemble, Horus, Isis, Eternal etc. offer?

- Laran

We are working on something similar for a project at work also.
We are using ZeroConf ( aka formerly Apple Rendezvous now Apple Bonjour ) for cluster discovery
and a Perspective Broker interface for exchanging information.

We considered reliable multi-cast but decided against it because our clusters are not going to be very big and
are going to use a kind of inversion of control pattern instead of distributing all the data everywhere.

But I am interested in a COMMON IDIOM for clustering twisted servers, I would definately say ZeroConf needs to be
the discovery mechanism, no need to re-invent that wheel and a Twisted implemenation is easy


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