<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Joe Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erlang@gmail.com" target="_blank">erlang@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Olivier BOUDEVILLE <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:olivier.boudeville@edf.fr" target="_blank">olivier.boudeville@edf.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><font face="sans-serif">Hi,</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif">I would have a potentially large number
of Erlang terms to send to a set of remote VMs. Currently it is a matter
of a few megabytes, but it could be up to a few gigabytes in the future;
and the exact same content may have to be sent to typically a dozen of
other nodes.</font>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>How big is the set of remote VMs (how many dozens?) -</div><div>Is the communication bandwidth between machines symmetric.</div><div><br></div><div>Once two machines have got a copy they could *both* send the data to a third.</div>
<div>Machine one sends the first half, machine two the second. Now three machines have a copy</div><div><br></div><div>Now three machines can send a copy to a fourth, the first can send the first third, ...</div><div>and so on.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Lookup epidemic gossip protocols. </div><div><br></div><div>This is a very nice exercise in parallel programming.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>You may even be able to repurpose etorrent for this kind of purpose, I'm sure it'd make it easier to put together a great prototype if nothing else.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-bob</div></div></div></div>