From: Robert Klemme Date: 2005-05-27T18:05:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Web services and Ruby Booker C. Bense wrote: > -----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. Thanks for that update! In fact it's quite some time since I took a look at grid computing. It could have developed in a better direction since then - but apparently it took the road of many academic / commitee inventions... Kind regards robert