Open Grid Engine or Akka/Something more fault tolerant?
My use case is that I have a pipeline of independent, stand alone programs, that I want to execute in a certain order on specific pieces of data that are output from previous pipeline stages.
Open Source Cloud Computing
Recently I realized that the most popular social platforms on the net are in the hand of just a few companies, Google, Twitter, Facebook, to name just a few. Taking into account the world changing power of these frameworks I am looking for a non-profit, democratic alternatives to these sites. (Mozilla is a non-profit project, however it could not thrive without the backing of Google.)
Is it possible to modify Lamport’s mutual exclusion algorithm to work without a FIFO guarantee?
I’m trying to implement a modified version of the Lamport Mutual Exclusion algorithm. The original algorithm assumes FIFO message ordering between connected systems, but I would like to use UDP a protocol which does not guarantee FIFO. Is it possible to modify this algorithm to work without FIFO?
Distributing cron-like tasks over multiple servers
Currently I’m using something like a master-cron server, which starts the tasks on the slave-worker servers.
Does map-reduce transmit the data and executable instructions?
When map-reduce divides a task and sends the data to each worker process, does it also transmit the instructions for how to operate on the data?
Distributed Issue Tracking [closed]
Closed 9 years ago.
Best practice for handling asynchronous inter communication?
Recently completed a project for handling credit card processing. One of the difficulties I faced was handling the delay / possible failure of notification messages. The most complex example was:
How should subsytem in different locations interact and communicate?
Apologies for the long post…
Is a grid or p2p architecture a subset of a broker architecture?
Is a grid or p2p architecture a subset of a broker architecture?
Distributed system command and control
I have an application that consists of a set of Java and C++ of processes running on one or more systems and need to ability to monitor and control the components as if they were one complete system.