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

In reply to Clusters, Distributed Computing, and Perl by enigmae

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