I have just heard about cp.net and thought that it would be fun to see what I could contribute. However being the instant gratification prone being, I would like to get my first WU done asap. So I was thinking if it was possible to run a single WU off of a DFS share in server 2003 or is there no way to manage which machine is chunking the data on the single WU data.

Basically has anyone come up with a better solution to completing WU's instead of just running the same account id on multiple machines in a multi-machine environment?

TIA,
Ron

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AFAIK there is no way to do it

It would result in a slower throughput if it was possible because it is very read/write memory intensive.

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> AFAIK there is no way to do it
>
> It would result in a slower throughput if it was possible because it is very
> read/write memory intensive.
>

Thanks for the response.

Perhaps one day someone will make a cluster client so that a single WU could be broken into segments and each node in the cluster could just grab that segment and work on it. When it was finished it could write the results back to the original WU file. I am not a smarty when it comes to this type of programming so I may not be making any sense.

-Ron

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Nice idea, but I'm not sure how feasible it would be in practice. The problem is that the model is performing a set of interdependent calculations in a linear time sequence, where each set can be influenced by the result of the previous one.

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