From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-04-19T13:08:15+09:00
Subject: ANN: TaskMaster 0.1.2

TaskMaster is an object-oriented framework that makes it easy to 
distribute tasks to many machines on a network.  See the README file
(and examples) for more details.

From the ChangeLog:
changes in 0.1.2:
* Changed the main README to refer to READMEs in examples directory.
* Changed 'require 'etc' ' to be platform dependent.  (On Windows
  we needed a different way to do getlogin)  This is a fix for the
  non-cygwin dependent Ruby on Windows.
* added a distributed_pi example in the 'examples' subdir that 
  estimates the value of pi using the Monte Carlo method distributed
  to multiple machines.
* changed the name of the slave.rb script in each of the examples to
  slave_script.rb to avoid recursive requires on Windows (because Windows
  filenames are case insensitive).
(Thanks to John Spanton for pointing out the Windows problems)


TaskMaster is open-source software (GPL). You can download it from
http://www.aracnet.com/~ptkwt/ruby_stuff/TaskMaster/

Phil