I think that BOINC is what you are looking for. Or Condor. On Nov 18, 2012, at 5:52 PM, john...@hushmail.com wrote:
> Greetings GT community, > > Suppose that a pool of computers are able to donate their idle CPU time, how > can a problem (i.e. an piece of code) get executed in them in a distributed > manner? > > For example, when I use the command globus-job-submit, or globus-job-run, how > will my local machine know where should these jobs to be submitted? > > I'm expecting that every resource should register itself to a discovery data > base (service) that is hosted on a server(s). And that grid users (e.g. > programmers/researchers) submit problems, they submit it somewhere that will > dispatch them to multiple resources (CPU donators) according to a scheduler > and an execution management plan that decies what to do in case of a failure. > > However, I fail to see how the above thoughts map to GT5 after following my > reading of the quick start guide in > http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/5.2/5.2.2/admin/quickstart/ -- what is in > the guide is pretty controlled by the user/programmer (e.g. he specifies > which computer to execute which commands on). > > Rgrds, > J
