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To: Jay who wrote (77418)	3/29/1999 9:05:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 186894

Jay, You're off topic question is not at issue.

To: Jay who wrote (77418)	3/29/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: L. Adam Latham	Respond to of 186894

Jay: Off-topic - Problems with remote logins on NT For the few of us that seem to care (Jay, Eric, Scumbria) and are following this discussion, I'll add my viewpoint. I'm helping one of my customers port a parallel application written for the Intel Paragon supercomputer to a PC farm of 16 machines. We first tried a freeware version of MPI for the communication, but the MPI version was buggy and wouldn't work. Instead of spending the $ for a commercial version of MPI, the engineer decided to dig out his sockets book, and was able to put together a nice communication package that mimicked the functionality of the Paragon supercomputer. One solution to his problem of launching jobs on each of the machines was to install the rshsvc service (remote shell service, available in the NT resource kit), which allows him to use the rsh command to start jobs on all the machines from one machine. This is working well, just as it does on Unix boxes (you even use a .rhosts file like in Unix). I agree with whoever said that the queuing system on NT is poor - I'd like to see something like NQS (network queuing system) ported to NT. Maybe it already has (for a fee). My customer also ran into the problem that only 10 connections are possible with NT Workstation (not good with a 16-node PC farm). He's considering an upgrade to NT Server, but is not thrilled with the cost. Adam