Distributed application based on Slurm. Individual node (or process) can be run on machines located in the same flat LAN. A multicast discovery algorithm builds the cluster.
This constitutes the core architecture on which a distributed system can be built. Next step is to include FUSE to build a distributed file system.
Paradigm is client-server. Each node has a socket-based message engine to send messages and receive responses.
- Resilient to failure: whenever a process (controller or slave) is down, automatic registration is