I run a lot of Monte Carlo simulations and I'm considering alternative distributed computing methods. The best solution would be MPI, but it may be months until I can get our IT Security Department to approve this.
My current approach relies only on domain authentication and a network file system, but requires that Ilocally log onto each of the machines to start the server application. ITSec is comfortable with this, as it runs every process with only my access privileges.
It would be convenient if I could remotely logon to a machine and start a server application running. I understand that RPC should be able to do this, but have no experience with it.I think it would require that I use an existing system service on the remote systems, but I have no idea which one (if any)would be suitable.
Above all, I would like to keep any solution as simple as possible, since I hope to have MPI available before next winter.
Can this be solved as simply as a couple of calls to Win32 and RPC?
Does anyone have a simplistic example?
Are there good references I should look at?
Any advice or information will be appreciated.
Thanks, Cliff
Message Edited by frieler on 02-24-2004 01:40 PM
