Digipede Network - Training

Here are my notes from the Live Meeting Digipede training with Nathan:

• Digipede Agents installed on all nodes on grid and will poll the Digipede server for work - similar to DataSynapse.
• Cycle scavenging is supported
• SQL Server/IIS are installed on the Digipede server.
• Sounds like a number of customers use Digipede to distributed Excel books onto a grid - the usual baby steps of moving applications onto a grid.
• Web services based communications
• Digipede Workbench UI/SDK framework/JobSubmit.exe can all be used to submit work to Digipede
• Digipede written in .NET 2.0
• Supports COM (and reg. free COM)
• JNBridge used for Java objects
• Digipede Agents uses Windows Security
• Digipede Pool = DataSynapse Discrimination
• Installing Digipede server on Vista not currently supported, but will be soon.
• SDK integrates into Visual Studio
• Digipede 2.0 will offer a Visual Studio debug add-in to debug agents - sounds much cleaner than DataSynapse
• Digipede Control (web management) isn’t as cool as it could be, but 2.0 should improve things.  Overall its functional, and there’s nothing stopping a client from writing their own.
• Can define different scheduling algorithm per pool - Weighted Average, FIFO, Absolute Priority, Absolute Priority FIFO

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