Two questions

[Douglas R. Briggs]

Supporters,

        Two questions.  First, what kind of mechanism does/will Swarm
have for parallel computing.  For example, if I have a network of
workstations, will I be able to take advantage of the distributed
computing environment in my Swarm applications, or is this not part of
the current development effort.
        Second, I am planning to connect GRASS (a raster-based
Geographic Information System) to Swarm, thereby allowing entities to
(presumably) initiate calls for information to GRASS from Swarm.  Will
Swarm accommodate this?  What do you see as a good starting place for
investigating the possibility of implementing this?  Does this seem
feasible with Swarm as it is now, or might it become feasible in a
later release?
        Thanks for your help!

        Douglas.

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 Douglas R. Briggs
    Graduate Research Programmer      Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Department of Computer Science    address@hidden

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