A vision for Parrot

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How cool would it be to just set up a computer with a listening parrotd
and DHCP client, plug it in to the Beowulf and have it automagically
recognised as a node and delegated tasks?
I have been thinking quite a bit about cross-platform Beowulfing
recently. My initial idea was to set up an rlogin or something on the
node machines, and have the Apple (that’s what I call the conducting
machine: “Apple” because it sends Jobs away, does nothing for a while
then gets Jobs back :slight_smile: distribute the source code for the node service
and job processor, configure and build the code, then log out and use
the new node as normal. This would be faster (provided the building
didn’t fall over) as Beowulfs go, but less secure and probably harder to
set up.
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Work on such schemes is already underway.

Security is a hard problem.

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In article aq8g9u$6c7$1@news.ox.ac.uk, Frodo Morris <“”> wrote:
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How cool would it be to just set up a computer with a listening parrotd
and DHCP client, plug it in to the Beowulf and have it automagically
recognised as a node and delegated tasks?
I have been thinking quite a bit about cross-platform Beowulfing
recently. My initial idea was to set up an rlogin or something on the
node machines, and have the Apple (that’s what I call the conducting
machine: “Apple” because it sends Jobs away, does nothing for a while
then gets Jobs back :slight_smile: distribute the source code for the node service
and job processor, configure and build the code, then log out and use
the new node as normal. This would be faster (provided the building
didn’t fall over) as Beowulfs go, but less secure and probably harder to
set up.

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Work on such schemes is already underway.

Security is a hard problem.

Curses! You stole my idea :slight_smile: I see what you mean about security being
a problem…

FM