Hallo Henning,
Freitag, 8. August 2008, meintest Du:
HF> Hi everybody,
HF> One needs basically a daemon which handles copying requests and establishes
HF> the connection to next node in the chain.
Why a daemon? Just MPI that starts up the processes on the remote nodes during
programm startup. Advantage is that you can use any high-speed-interconnect
which you have an MPI for.
HF> Has somebody written such a tool?
I wrote a tool in Java in 2004 or 2005 during an internship for IBM at the IPK
in Gatersleben that implemented your strategy. Worked good but had some flaws
since i was using some Java specific remote procedure calls and daemons.
Implementing it with C/C++ and MPI can't take more than a couple of hours and
should be easy to do.
You could use tar and pipe the datastream to copy whole directories without
worrying to much about file attributes. I always wanted to implement it myself
but i can't find time with my current job :-(
Could be a good project for a student to do.
Regards,
Jan
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