Timothy Sipples wrote:
Thinking out loud some more, it seems much of the service could be done via
convenient e-mail.
You'd send an e-mail with a file attachment (in common formats like .zip,
.tar, .tar.gz) containing your source code, make file, etc. You'd send the
e-mail to something like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or eventually [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.
The system would immediately e-mail you back a job submission
acknowledgement, with a Web address containing a job number of some kind.
It might also send you back the total execution time (wall clock) for the
last completed submission and current number of submissions still in
progress, just to give you some clues how long it might take. "Please save
this information. We will send another e-mail when your job is complete."
If you go to the Web address you'll get a status page for your compile job.
You'll also have the option to terminate the job before completion.
(Ideally the system would only let each e-mail address have one compile job
running and queue any more sequentially. So it would be to your advantage
to terminate any jobs ahead if you no longer want them.)
Gee! That's great. Why don't you quit IBM and set it up
for us? I'm sure you'd get a lot of takers.
When the job is complete, you'll get another e-mail with a Web link to
download the completed output (including binary).
There might be a security step or two in here (such as registering your
e-mail address first).
Hmmmm.... Any benefactors out there? Is this something a university might
want to host, for example?
Not IBM, I'll wager.
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