From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-05-21T18:50:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Web services and Ruby


"Luke Kanies" <luke@madstop.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:Pine.GSO.4.60.0505201655360.20592@kirby.madstop.com...
> On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
>> if you are in *nix and have a central nfs filesystem all nodes can see 
>> check
>> out rq (ruby queue)
>
> I'm planning on having this system be cross-platform, and it'll be used to 
> do things like set up NFS, so I can't depend on NFS's existence, 
> unfortunately.
>
> I'm always interested in more cluster software, though, especially if it's 
> written in Ruby; a lot of the people working on the same problem I'm 
> attacking (building software to maintain the computers for us) come from 
> the cluster world, because the problem is generally both exacerbated there 
> (because of node count) and easier to solve (because of node consistency).

Maybe have a look at grid computing.  I think there is a standard out there 
and maybe even an implementation in ruby.  Could be that it uses CORBA for 
communication - I don't quite remember.

Cheers

    robert