Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: parallel@netcom.com (B. Mitchell Loebel) Subject: The PARALLEL Processing Connection - August Meeting Notice Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 10:14:42 GMT Message-ID: "Buying cycles"... A Market Model of Clustered Workstations Our next meeting will take place on August 16th; please note that this is a one time change of date. Clustered workstations... Shared resources... cycles, memory, etc. Could the sharing policy be constructed to mimic real world market dynamics so that the resources needed by one user are "bought" and "sold" from another user? On August 16th, Tad Hogg will discuss the open, market- based computational system known as Spawn which he designed and implemented at Xerox PARC. Spawn makes use of idle computational resources in a distributed network of heterogeneous computer workstations. Using concurrent Monte-Carlo simulations as prototypical applications, he explored issues of fairness in resource distribution, currency as a form of priority, price equilibria, the dynamics of transients, and scaling to large systems. A discussion of member entrepreneurial projects currently underway will begin at 7:15PM and the main meeting will start promptly at 7:45PM at Sun Microsystems at 901 San Antonio Road in Palo Alto. This is just off the southbound San Antonio exit of 101. Northbound travelers also exit at San Antonio and take the overpass to the other side of 101. Please be prompt; as usual, we expect a large attendance; don't be left out or left standing. There is a $10 fee for non-members and members will be admitted free. Yearly membership fee is $50; corporate membership fee is $400/year. -- B. Mitchell Loebel parallel@netcom.com Director - Strategic Alliances and Partnering 408 732-9869 PARALLEL Processing Connection