first 9grid run.

ron minnich <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:47:24 -0600 (MDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.plan9.nine-grid
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I just ran my first distributed job across the 9grid last night. I used a
simple taskbag system that presents task state as a file system, and
allows access to tasks via file system ops. The taskbag system was modeled
on an earlier one Maya Gokhale wrote, but I re-did it basing it on ramfs.

The control node was a vmware session on my laptop. The compute nodes were 
[b,c].grid.bell-labs.com. I could have had more but it was late. 

I got the correct answers. 

The application was the first one I ran on a cluster in 1991, described
here:  http://public.lanl.gov/rminnich/mether/hpdc.ps

So, that's a milestone of sorts. Plan 9 concepts proved out beautifully. I 
debugged on my laptop, then to run on the b and c I just did a cpu to 
those nodes. No gridftp, no globus, no x.500 certs, none of that stuff 
needed!

ron