From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200006131608.MAA11483@cse.psu.edu> Subject: [9fans] Beginner question and experiences From: "rob pike" Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:08:42 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b9c1bc60-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Question two: has anyone tried using Plan 9 to run a rendering farm? Not to my knowledge. However, Gerard Holzmann has a rack of 16 PCs (500MHz machines with .5GB RAM each, connected by 100Mbit ether) each running Plan 9 that he uses to farm out SPIN jobs (see spin(1)). A web page is used to submit and retrieve jobs; rc scripts distribute the calculations around the farm and cpu and import and of course the shared file server are used to pass data. The stats(1) display of all 16 machines running is very pretty. Works great in practice; it's used full time to verify software used in telephone and network switching equipment. -rob