'Tis not really the most advanced use of perl i've ever seen, but an interesting addition to the infinite list of YAPU (YetAnotherPerlUsage):
builder.com is running an article titled Perl provides distributed processing punch (source included).

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Re: Perl managing distributed Computing
by perrin (Chancellor) on Mar 03, 2003 at 18:51 UTC
    If you want to do distributed computing, there is no need to waste your time the way these people did. Just go to CPAN and use one of the existing distributed computing toolsets.