NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/sgi/18195

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From: [e-mail] (Theo de Raadt)
Subject: Re: QUEING LARGE JOBS
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

>  We have a network of 27 SGI workstations [...]
>  the students in our environment will start large Ansys or Fidap jobs [...]
>  Without having to have the students 'rlogin' to a machine with 32 or 48
>  meg of memory, is there a way to poll which of these machines (32/48 meg
>  mach.) is not busy and run the job there. And if someone logs onto one of
>  these machines, the job gets sent back to where it started??

We have a product, called "Load Balancer", that does more or less what
you want, plus a lot more. Please send email, or phone, for more information.
(sorry for the commercialism ;-)

Dan Freedman, Director
Freedman Sharp and Associates Inc.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
[phone]
[e-mail]