rsplib 2.4.0 announced

The RSPLIB project has just released the latest stable version 2.4.0 of 
the RSPLIB Open Source RSerPool package. As usual, it can be found on the 
project homepage: http://tdrwww.iem.uni-due.de/dreibholz/rserpool/ .

RSPLIB is the Open Source implementation (GPLv3) of the IETF's upcoming 
standard for Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool). It provides protocols and 
functionalities for the management of server pools and sessions between 
users and pools. In particular, RSerPool takes care for server selection and 
session failover support among servers of a pool. The RSPLIB package contains 
a library for the session communication (the rsplib), an implementation of 
the pool management component (registrar) as well as multiple example service 
implementations. Details on RSerPool and the RSPLIB can be found on the 
project's website: http://tdrwww.iem.uni-due.de/dreibholz/rserpool/ . The 
web site now also includes a demonstration video.

Version 2.4.0 is the first stable version containing the Scripting Service 
client and server as one of the example applications. The Scripting Service 
allows for shell-script based distribution of workload to remote machines: an 
application can create a workload package (a Tar/GZip) archive consisting of 
a work script and input data. This archive is distributed by the Scripting 
Service client to a remote machine running a Scripting Service server. On 
this remote machine, the workload package is unpacked, the worker script is 
processed and finally the results are packed and sent back to the client. 
Using the Scripting Service, workload distribution can be realized with a few 
lines of shell code. An example for distributing OMNeT++ simulation runs can 
be found here: http://www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~dreibh/omnetpp/ .


Best regards
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 Dr. Thomas Dreibholz

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