Hi Monks,

I'm working on a perl application which should run on multiple small hosts, some for storage and some for number crunching.

Now I'm searching for a clean and fast solution to interconnect these hosts.

The data that needs to be exchanged is somewhat complicated, and fits best in structs/hashes but could also be reformatted to csv or the like...

Possibly it should be as standard conform as possible and useable from other languages than perl. (at best)

Currently I'm using SOAP::Lite for everything which runs very smoothly and is comfortable to use but very slow.
I'm using SOAP::Lite's mod_soap so there is not much to tune.

Some other solutions that came to my mind are:
- use of Storable and raw Sockets
- some sort of home brewn binary/ascii protocol
- maybe even Corba

What are your thoughts on my problem?

In reply to Clustered Perl Applications? by sri

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