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Ruby Queue

Tony Travis wrote:

The Linux Journal article cited by Andy is entitled "Linux Clustering with Ruby Queue: Small Is Beautiful - Using Ruby and SQLite to create Linux clusters that take advantage of idle nodes and bypass expensive software solutions"

In it, Ara T. Howard says:

"...I had evaluated several packages, such as openMosix and Sun's Grid Engine, but ultimately had decided against them."

SGE and openMosix aren't 'expensive' software solutions, they're free!


Maybe Ara meant that he had evaluated other free solutions and wasn't satisfied, so rather than evaluate/acquire commercial "expensive software solutions" he built exactly what he needed and called it Ruby Queue. But there's still expense because time is dear.


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