On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:32:04PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > /usr/bin/make already have hooks for remote execution of jobs when > running parallel. All that is missing before we can do distributed > parallel make worlds is that somebody writes the necessary hooks > based on PVM... > > This is a really simple task, and the best of it all is that one > does not need a cluster of machines to test it: Using jail(8) you > can run a PVM cluster of any size on one machine.
I'm all for parallel makes, but I don't think this is the right approach. The problem with doing this directly on PVM is that PVM is a message passing system. This is find if you are the only user of the cluster, but if it's shared (the normal case) you need a schedular. A better approach would be to allow make to tie into a POSIX batch queueing framework. Since the syntax is pretty similar, you could probably support both Sun Grid Engine and PBS fairly easily. As proof that this can work, SGE ships with a parallel make. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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