A vision for Parrot

[Frodo Morris]

Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <aq8g9u$6c7$1 at news.ox.ac.uk>, Frodo Morris  <""> wrote:
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>>How cool would it be to just set up a computer with a listening parrotd 
>>and DHCP client, plug it in to the Beowulf and have it automagically 
>>recognised as a node and delegated tasks?
>>I have been thinking quite a bit about cross-platform Beowulfing 
>>recently.  My initial idea was to set up an rlogin or something on the 
>>node machines, and have the Apple (that's what I call the conducting 
>>machine: "Apple" because it sends Jobs away, does nothing for a while 
>>then gets Jobs back :-) distribute the source code for the node service 
>>and job processor, configure and build the code, then log out and use 
>>the new node as normal.  This would be faster (provided the building 
>>didn't fall over) as Beowulfs go, but less secure and probably harder to 
>>set up.
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> Work on such schemes is already underway.
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> Security is a *hard* problem.

Curses!  You stole my idea :-)  I see what you mean about security being 
a problem...
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FM