In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brooks Davis writes: >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... >>=20 >> 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.
Well, you may think so, but while I wait for this Rolls-Royce you describe, I'll be perfectly content to upgrade my bike to a cheap japanese compact car... Adding PVM to /usr/bin/make is a simple task, less than 1000 lines of code. What you suggest is not going to happen in any of the next couple of years unless $BIGCORP pays somebody to do it. My suggestion consequently still stands: Please someone, add PVM to /usr/bin/make. Poul-Henning PS: you have no idea how I hate the "AAAAAAHHHH! what you propose will not be perfect so DO NOT DO IT!" attitude around here... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
