From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2005-04-26T04:26:15+09:00
Subject: Re: boulder_denver.rb

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 04:17 +0900, Rick Nooner wrote:
> The problem that I've been working on though, revolve around controlling various
> pieces of VOIP test equipment in a distributed lab environment and providing a
> way of certifying a complete VOIP switching environment that may be made up of
> hundreds of computing nodes.  Since I have modules that live on each node, it
> becomes a big distributed computing problem.  There has to be a central system
> that controls the testing and report success/problems/failure as well.
> Fun stuff :-) and Ruby (with Drb and Rinda) is good at it, too!

You might be interested in ACME, which Rich Kilmer wrote to test a
DARPA-funded distributed agent system:

http://acme.cougaar.org/

> This is the first project that I've been able to openly use Ruby and the only
> reason that I have the latitude to this is because last year I finished another
> distributed systems project under time and under budget using Ruby without
> asking permission.  This system has required zero maintenance and has been running
> since last June.  It is made up of over 2000 nodes scattered around the world.

Yup, Ruby is great for this sort of thing...

Yours,

Tom