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Re: Multi-threading vs. Multi-processing?
I've considered implementing a "poor man's" version of multi-processing by
putting my graphics onto separate machines with only the computed URLs
handling by a central server. Would this be useful?
I'm not sure exactly how best to implement this. I would like some way to
specify a URL so that I could alter the target server easily. If I write
#u"page43.html" this maps to the current machine. I would like to write
#u"/graphics/page43.gif" and #u"/ai-stuff/page43.gif" and have the real
URLs map onto separate machines, for example
"http://my-sgi/graphics/page43.gif" and
"http://my-ppc/ai-stuff/page43.html"
Then I could put the graphics onto the SGI I wish I had, separating
the load from my "intelligent" computations.
-Chris Eliot
Christopher R. Eliot, Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate
Center for Knowledge Communication, Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003. (413) 545-4248 FAX: 545-1249
ELIOT@cs.umass.edu, <http://www.cs.umass.edu/~eliot/>
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