Phil Tomson wrote:


> TaskMaster is a framework for distributing runnable task objects to 
> multiple client machines (runnable meaning they respond to a 'run' method 
> which is invoked once the task object arrives at the client).


Is that comparable to what they describe here?, in an interview about 
the implementation of the WaybackMachine
http://web.archive.org/:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/01/18/brewster.html?page=2
"P2 is a Perl script that takes commands and runs them on remote boxes, 
splits up data to be able to run on them, and then brings back and 
correlates the data.
[...] I think we've cracked the parallel computer problem for a very 
large set of problems, which is fundamentally data-mining and 
database-type operations."

Sounds like fun :)

Tobi

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