Paul Rubin wrote: > Does anyone have an implementation of a distributed queue? I.e. I > have a long running computation f(x) and I'd like to be able to > evaluate it (for different values of x) on a bunch of different > computers simultaneously, the usual "worker thread" pattern except > distributed across a network. I guess this is pretty easy to write > with a centralized socket listener that dispatches requests through a > Queue to multiple threads on the same machine, each talking > synchronously to a server socket. I wonder if something like it > already exists. I see a little bit of discussion in the newsgroup > archive but no obvious pointers to code. > > Thanks.
Pyro (http://pyro.sf.net) contains 2 examples that do just this. One is a distributed merge sort / md5 "cracker", the other is distributed prime factorization of a set of numbers. --Irmen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
