[squeak-dev] Is TeaTime a general distributed processing solution?

Ralph Johnson johnson at cs.uiuc.edu
Sun May 8 23:32:38 UTC 2011


No.  TeaTime is about running the same computation on several systems,
not on getting several systems to divide up work and then report back
on it.

It is not a bad question.   Most distributed computing systems are
about the latter problem, TeaTime is unique because it focuses on a
different problem.

-Ralph Johnson

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Casey Ransberger
<casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been reading the papers about Croquet. These seemed to be focused (as
> they should be!) on Croquet as a collaboration platform.
> What I'm wondering is: if I have a big pile of numbers to crunch, and a
> heterogenous bunch of boxes running TeaTime, can I give the network some
> math to do in Smalltalk and let TeaTime handle distributing the workload, or
> am I reading this wrong?
>
> Apologies if this is an overly uninformed question.
> --
> Casey Ransberger
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