Art, Yes, we are developing a distributed system in Unicon. The system performs parallel Smith-Waterman searches of the "protein data bank." Basic architecture of the system is as follows. There is a Unicon cgi component for search request submission from a web form. There is a Unicon "control program." There is a unicon worker program on each remote node. There is a C program that handles communication between the workers and the control program. The C component was needed because we needed more low level control of the sockets than Unicon abstraction offers (select with ability to include new connect requests). We will be running the system on up to 87 P4 3.4 GHz machines with enough RAM so that the slice of the database assigned to each worker can, hopefully, be contained completely in RAM. PVM (or MPI) capabilities from unicon would be interesting and make building this type of system easier and more flexible. Michael Meehan
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Art Eschenlauer Sent: Thu 2/17/2005 7:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Unicon-group] Anyone applying Unicon in multiprocessor environments? I'm curious if anyone is experimenting with Unicon (or Icon) in Beowulf-style situations to parallelize (and accelerate) computation. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
