PUPS/P3 facilitates development of multi-process multi-host computations by providing tools to emulate colonies of homeostatic organisms. It permits persistent computation, homeostatic resource protection, and asychronous interprocess communication.
The Job Jar is a simple batch queuing system for Unix. Its main
distinguishing feature is that there is no central daemon. Instead, an
arbitrary set of workers cooperatively claim jobs from a central
directory. A job is any Unix executable file.