Neil Nelson wrote:

> You may mean which particular, physical web server--whether it will

> consist of the equipment I have here or equipment elsewhere?  I think

> of the sever I am making as one cell in a cluster of physical servers.

> I hope to have all these Internet connect servers coordinating their

> activities.  And this is the direction I see Jure working on at the

> moment in trying to get different Internet connected computers to talk

> to each other automatically.



The system I am working on right now, will be able to find the right

computers for a job. We still need to discuss the way that orders will

be packaged. 



By order packaging I mean: What is going to be the smallest task unit to

be sent to a diffirent computer? If it is too big, it will contain

non-related tasks that the target system might not be very good at,

however, if the task unit is too small, it will take to much time just

to transfer it and it's I/O data.



> Also along this line, we should develop a method to

> automatically setup and integrate Internet computers as servers or

> as less capable but still able cluster contributors.  E.g., we could

> still likely utilize an MS Windows based PC as a cluster node if we

> install the correct software.



In the system I'm designing, the very protocol allows that members are

truly whatever devices (machines): When an idle machine replies a call

for processing, it sends a list of it's hardware and abbilities. In wich

case of course, a printer node sends noting more than the fact that it

is a printer capable of such-and-such printing speeds with such-and-such

colors, etc, while a fax machine would send data about other abbilities

too.



I just checked up with the IRC protocol theory and I think I'd know how

to write a program using it. Do you, Ryan, know how to use IRC? I'd

appriciate any help.



I was considering about the posibilities of this protocol (I call it

IRRD; Internet Relay Request Distribution protocol) being combined with

the Bluetooth technology and I see that a succsess would render PCs

obstolete. You could indeed do 3D modeling from your mobile phone or

call home from your graphical work-station. =] I'm checking out

Http://www.bluetooth.com right now.





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