Re: resources

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, ron minnich wrote:

> Now we need a directory of resources. What makes the most sense? It should 
> be decentralized, right? no central place. 

i've been thinking about it. as a centralized resource, unfortunately.

a /srv/ entry somewhere, that when mounted presents the system hierarchy
together with the resources available, sort of:

	% import somewhere /n/9grid /n/9grid
	% cd /n/9grid; ls
	node1
	node2
	...
	nodeX
	ctl
	% cat node1
	location: 136.159.7.68
	arch: 386
	cpuspeed: 1800
	load: 0.00 0.00 0.00
	note: University of Calgary
	<whatever you want here>
	%

each cpu server can run a process that updates its entry on random intervals
(no polling, please) by writing the info to 'ctl'...

just an idea, i really haven't though of it scaling too much, except that it
could be at a local (cluster) level instead of a global one:

	% import ucalgary /n/9grid /n/9grid/calgary
	% import -a somewhere /n/9grid /n/9grid/somewhere
	% cd /n/9grid; ls *
	calgary/node1
	calgary/node2
	somewhere/node1
	...
	%

as you can see, i'm trying to get away with the simplest possible design :)

andrey