FYI: distmake 0.3 annoncement

[Ron Chen]

http://distmake.sourceforge.net/

About
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distmake is a distributed, parallel, GNU make compatible make
program. distmake reads a Makefile, and distributes builds
targets over a set of build servers on the network.

distmake is fully compatible with GNU make 3.80 on which is it
based.


New feature: SGE Integration
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The Sun Grid Engine ( http://gridengine.sunsource.net ) is a
free, open-source and complete distributed computing tool that
may be used to build "computing farm" infrastructure. SGE
provides a single entry point for jobs submission, and schedule
(or dispatch) them to the best execution hosts on the network
according to jobs policies defined by the grid administrator.

Distmake provides some capabilities to interface with SGE. The
main idea here is to let the grid engine software to provide the
build hosts list, instead of manually defining it in the
.bldhosts file. The advantages of this integration include:

    * SGE will choose the best (less loaded or most powerful)
build servers and provide them to the distmake job.
    * SGE will not start the build process if all available CPUs
are busy (can be configured by the grid administrator). This
prevents the build servers to become overloaded and give maximum
performance to running jobs.
    * SGE provides accounting and statistics information.
    * SGE may be used to turn end-user workstations into build
machines when they are idle (lunch time or during the night).
    * ... any many more... 

 -Ron



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