Re: Distributed computing in Cocoa
Re: Distributed computing in Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Distributed computing in Cocoa
- From: Mike Davis <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:20:52 -0500
There use to be something on NeXTSTEP 3.2 which allowed you to run a
process across several different hosts at the same time, stealing CPU
cycles from the slave hosts. I can't remember the name though. It was a
UNIX command line tool.
It'd be a very cool thing for Apple to resurrect as it'd make clustering
Macs very cool - especially if you were running CGI scripts, for
instance.
You also used to be able to use DO across hosts too but it seems to have
gone. I heard there was another way to do DO across hosts but I've had
no need for it yet so I don't know myself (probably mixing a socket into
a NSConnection, I guess).
Anyone remember RemoteSpot? A very cool example of DO.
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