From: "Booker C.Bense" Date: 2005-05-27T01:40:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Web services and Ruby -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <3f8ef8F6h7h6U1@individual.net>, Robert Klemme wrote: > >"Luke Kanies" 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. _ Yikes, only someone that hasn't looked at it would suggest that. > 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. > _ Grid as in Globus wouldn't work for this since it requires a pretty hefty infrastructure in place already. The problem isn't that there is a standard, there are currently 3 standards. Grid computing is a complete and utter mess at the moment. The most viable long term solution seems to be something that looks like web services with enough added sugar to provide state like capablities. _ Booker C. Bense -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBQpX5+GTWTAjn5N/lAQHLLwP7BbMKyFn5LplYkrZgVC27Ph92n3J0/9zK uhmqGjL4aKxBgG+uLrDzhFrBU81R3S4+D6t7BOoR1Mw7o1BDF1xt+eYOgSqaoMsN lJ7VXci9lW2usbWemH+P9wqrjKNlYj4s8lyqN+0azNUaCubjr79sDFEzIDsLu1i0 gMJICaOMjts= =aGF7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----