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November 16, 2005
Infiniflow
Infiniflow by Paremus has finally been released. I have been wanting to get my hands on this product for about 9 months.
What is it? It is supposedly a next generation grid solution, moving beyond the traditional compute farm approach. It apparently has built in support for distributed workflows and dataflows and all in a Transactional environment. The underlying infrastructure is built on top of Jini, Blitz, Jxta etc.
Going through the install process now, hopefully it will live up to expectations.
Posted by Damian at November 16, 2005 10:01 AM
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Shame the Infiniflow documentation isn't on the web, I'd be curious about how the scheduling of work can be configured on the engines - can u define the affinity between engine and services for example. Can you pin an engine to a service for the service duration?
Posted by: Matt Davey ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.theguyzrock.co.uk/damian/nav-commenters.gif)
at November 17, 2005 01:49 PM
Are you going to download and review the Microsoft Compute solution as well ;)
Posted by: Matt Davey at November 17, 2005 02:03 PM
Matt, you have been working with that grid product for too long!
Infiniflow is quite different from the current "compute farm" approach that DS, Platform etc gives you. It is more about process flow. Anyhow, as for provisioning, when you deploy a flow (Process Network) to the "Fabric" the Infiniflow infrastructure will dynamically provision resources for it. This can be based on SLAs etc. AFAIK* a minimum set of resources will be set aside for an instance of a flow.
*Based on my extensive experience of infiniflow thus far (approximately 1 day). I am probably wrong.
Posted by: Damian at November 17, 2005 02:07 PM
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