Greetings,
I was looking around CPAN, and perlmonks and have not noticed anyone doing a project that used cluster technology. My goal is to write a series of perl scripts that i could run on any machines running perl and then provide load-balancing, parallel threads, and common management from a control system.
I have noticed some good modules on using threads (parallel) and some on distributed computing (POE) but there doesn't seem to be one solid module that performs these tasks. I was essentially going to use a parallel algorithm for finding prime numbers since this has been a proven essential task for clusters and supercomputers.
Has anyone setup a multi-threaded script that can perform cluster-like functionality on heterogenous network environments? Does perl run on current cluster technology (Beowolf or other) and is there a benefit to using perl and/or Beowolf for this task? What I had in mind was to use perl to create a powerful application framework that can provide a mechanism to easily multi-task and solve problems using several machines and be easy to intergrate in existing and future projects.
Thanks for your time,
Enigmae