A better solution ...

[Joel Meulenberg]

BTW, why didn't we all get to see your sever code?  You got special
plans for it or something???  : )

--- matthew_heusser at mcgraw-hill.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> For all who attended my presentation:
> 
>   For those who complained about network bandwidth and
> wasted clock cycles ...
> 
>   This wasn't a very good application to demonstrate
> MPT-Spaces.  The best kind of applications are ones
> where the server can transmit a very small amount of data,
> and have the client work on that data for long periods of time.
> 
>   10 clients at a time * 1 hour to find an answer = 36,000
> simultaneous connections.
> 
>     A better solution would be to have the master Assign work
> (IE "Do 1000 operations") and have the client programs create
> an evaluate 1000 darts, then write back totals ("Results1, 650, 350")
>  Where the first variable is the number of TRUE and the second
> variable is the number of FALSE.
> 
>   The master just needs to grab all the results and total them.
> 
>   In any event, it was a good proof-of-concept.  Now on to getting
> it competitive with Java ...
> 
> regards,
> 
> Matt H.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. 
http://auctions.yahoo.com/