Retrying: Using spark to distribute jobs to standalone servers

(apologies if this appears twice. I sent it 24 hours ago and it hasn't hit the list yet) Hi, I have a bit of an unusual use-case and would greatly appreciate some feedback from experienced Sparklers as to whether it is a good fit for spark. I have a network of compute/data servers configured as

Using spark to distribute jobs to standalone servers

Hi, I have a bit of an unusual use-case and would *greatly* *appreciate* some feedback as to whether it is a good fit for spark. I have a network of compute/data servers configured as a tree as shown below - controller - server 1 - server 2 - server 3 - etc. There are