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.

"It depends". What do you mean by "interconnect"? Do you need to coordinate number crunching (say, by handing out subtasks from some central server)?

I've work on one load-balanced Perl application server that shared heavyweight data via the database tier (Oracle, in this case), with lightweight "event" propagation via sockets between the servers. The lightweight part would correspond to "some sort of home brew binary/ASCII protocol" on your list. It worked fine for us.

But to answer "what are your thoughts on my problem?" we would need to know more about your problem. Can you characterize the nature of the number crunching? (E.g., is the crunching coordinated between servers? At what level of granularity?) The nature of storage? (E.g., are stored computations shared between servers, or is storage write-only?)

In reply to Re: Clustered Perl Applications? by dws
in thread Clustered Perl Applications? by sri

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