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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Michael Jeffrey <michael@vitanuova.com>
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References: <d5515dc7e461baf6037b28de26efc6ed@juice.thebigchoice.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Java
Date: Tue,  2 Mar 2004 13:46:37 +0000
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<matt@proweb.co.uk> wrote in message
news:d5515dc7e461baf6037b28de26efc6ed@juice.thebigchoice.com...

> Inferno is perfectly capable of running as a single program
>
> You can even put it in inetd if you were kinky enough or just run it as
it's own listener.

And not just on Linux and UNIX platforms.
Vita Nuova have a collection of Limbo applications that
can orchestrate the execution of programs across a
computational grid consisting of UNIX, Linux and Windows
machines.   A recent customer of ours has connected >250
of their Windows PCs (2000, NT and XP) into a grid.
Inferno manages the execution of the host OS application (Win32
app in this case) and the harvesting of the results.  In this
example Inferno runs as a Windows Service on each
client.  The scheduler, another Inferno application, happens to be running
on Red Hat Linux.