grid-computing

I am currently researching the options that are available (both Open Source and Commercial) for developing a distributed application. "A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network." Wikipedia The application is focused on distributing highly cpu intensive operations (as opposed to data intensive) so I'm sure MapReduce solutions don't fit the bill. Any framework that you can recommend ( + give a brief summary of any experience or comparison to other frameworks ) would be greatly appreciated. StevenH MPAPI Framework - http://www

how can I parametrize a shell script that is executed on a grid (started with qsub) ? I have a shell script, where I use getopts to read the parameters. When I start (qsub script.sh -r firstparam -s secondparam ..) this working script with qsub I receive error messages, qsub: invalid option -- s qsub: illegal -r value as qsub thinks the parameter are for itself. Yet I have not found any solution. Thanks Using the qsub -v option is the proper way: qsub -v par_name=par_value[,par_name=par_value...] script.sh par_name can be used as variable in the shell script. jhrf In addition to volk's answer,