Easy to use distributed system?

[Maurice LING]

Jim Jones wrote:
> I am looking for a system in Python that will easily allow me to distribute 
> processes across multiple systems?    So, if I have a function 'foo', I'd 
> like to be able to call something along the lines of
> 
> distribute(foo(x))
> 
> And have the system figure out which node is available for process, and then 
> have the results returned in some sort of callback fashion.
> 
> Any insight is greatly appreciated.
> 

Globus toolkit
pyGlobus, python interface to Globus 
(http://dsd.lbl.gov/gtg/projects/pyGlobus/)
pyLinda (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/aw/pylinda/)

Cheers
maurice