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The ANTS Load Balancing System is a piece of software that will allow jobs to be
executed on computers connected in a network (eg. a Beowulf). The node best
suited (at the time of execution) for the job given, will be chosen to execute
the job.

This is an approach different from that of traditional Queue systems. A job is
not queued, it is executed immediately if any suitable host (for the given job
type) can be found. This makes the system suitable for execution of a large
number of small jobs, such as compilers. A traditional queue system will often
take up too much time managing it's queues, to allow tasks such as large-scale
compilations to gain much speedup using it.

Package ants: Information

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