Ziga Bobnar writes:
Active Tools is pleased to announce that the beta version of
Clustor 2.0 for Linux Beowulf clusters is available for download
from www.activetools.com.
With Clustor, existing applications can be rapidly adapted for
execution on a Beowulf type computing clusters. Clustor can also be
used to utilize idle computing power of other networked
computers.
Clustor provides an easy and intuitive environment to build
distributed compute intensive applications, which offers
significant time and money savings. Unlike other tools for
development of distributed and parallel programs, no reprogramming
of existing applications is required.
Clustor is based on a simple, yet extremely powerful concept,
called parametric execution. Parametric executions require that the
same application is executed numerous times. They produce a lot of
jobs, often exceeding thousands, which makes parametric executions
ideally suited to run on large computing clusters.
To perform parametric executions, the user simply provides the
application to be executed on a cluster and values for parameters.
Clustor does the rest – it generates jobs to be computed, manages
their execution and collects the results.
Clustor 2.0 incorporates exciting new features that even further
simplify implementation of high performance distributed
applications. New features include a complete set of API commands,
which allow that Clustor is easily embedded with other applications
to serve as a job distribution engine. Clustor 2.0 also supports
tight integration of Clustor commands with any shell or scripting
language.
Beta version of Clustor 2.0 for Linux is available now for
download from www.activetools.com.