Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: kommers@wikanxpi.mit.edu (Jeff Kommers)
Subject: distributing tasks to slaves
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research
Date: 12 Feb 1996 17:11:23 GMT
Message-ID: <4fnsbr$hd7@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>


I was wondering if anyone had written a generic set of
routines for dynamically managing the pool of slaves in
a master/slave computation.  For example, if a host is added
to the virtual machine, then start a slave on it and give
it a job.  If a host is deleted or crashes, give the job 
it was working on to another host.  

In my particular application the slaves only need to report
results to the master; they don't communicate with each other.

Just thought I'd ask before doing this myself.

Thanks,

Jeff

