caml-list - the Caml user's mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
To: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: AW: AW: [Caml-list] Distributed computing libraries
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:44:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FCFA4FA.5030400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339007736.4950.4@samsung>

On 06/06/2012 02:35 PM, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> As you know Functory a bit better: how is the data delivered to network
> clients? Just via the network connection that also assigns the work to
> do? That would be a bit lame, and not really useful.

Yes, the input parameters of the function to be run are sent over the 
network connection that assigns work to do, and the results come back 
over that same connection.  That said, it's possible to use a network 
file system to distribute the real data and just pass filenames over the 
control channel.

E.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-06 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-06 16:53 Thomas Braibant
2012-06-06 17:31 ` oliver
2012-06-06 17:34   ` Vincent Aravantinos
2012-06-06 18:01 ` AW: " Gerd Stolpmann
2012-06-06 18:16   ` Edgar Friendly
2012-06-06 18:18     ` oliver
2012-06-06 18:35     ` AW: " Gerd Stolpmann
2012-06-06 18:44       ` Edgar Friendly [this message]
2012-06-06 20:52   ` Thomas Braibant
2012-06-07  1:34     ` Francois Berenger
2012-06-07 15:44       ` Thomas Braibant
2012-06-08  0:53         ` Francois Berenger
2012-06-08  6:36         ` Francois Berenger
2012-06-06 20:24 ` Roberto Di Cosmo
2012-06-06 20:43   ` Thomas Braibant
2012-06-07  1:48     ` [Caml-list] OCaml package managers Francois Berenger
2012-06-06 22:23   ` [Caml-list] Distributed computing libraries Ashish Agarwal
2012-06-08  6:55     ` Roberto Di Cosmo
2012-06-11 14:48       ` Ashish Agarwal
2012-06-08  8:58 ` jean-marc alliot

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4FCFA4FA.5030400@gmail.com \
    --to=thelema314@gmail.com \
    --cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
    --cc=info@gerd-stolpmann.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).