A vision for Parrot

[Cameron Laird]

In article <aq8g9u$6c7$1 at 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 :-) 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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Cameron Laird <Cameron at Lairds.com>
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