From: Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>
Date: 2012-08-29T20:28:52+09:00
Subject: Re: working on multiple machines in a LAN

This is just plain old distributed computing in the style of seti@home
but you could make it simpler.

You could just put files in a shared directory and the workers just
grab files from the directory and work on them. File names like
'job_1234_worker_1.txt' would be picked up by worker 1 (and no one
else). The worker would then write the results back to the shared
directory as 'results_1234_worker_1.txt' and pick up another job.

The boss would then just have to make sure that there are enough jobs
to keep all the workers busy and do whatever it need to with the
results.