We have to build something in my distributed systems class, I have no idea what we are going to do.

Any suggestions? (we’re a group of 20, we have sub-teams internally)

Here are the requirements:

We can’t use message systems or file servers, and we’re coding only in C/C++ and Python. Each team handling 2+ processes.

My suggestions:

Distributed Task Scheduler:

Description: A lightweight system that manages and schedules tasks across multiple servers. It could involve simple tasks like running batch scripts or performing routine computations spread across different nodes.

Key Technologies: Python for client requests, C/C++ for the server-side task execution. Use threading to handle multiple scheduling requests and simple socket programming for client-server communication.