Re: [Xpipe-users] Starting with XPipe

[Sean M. <sea...@pr...>]

At 11:42 14/10/2003 +0100, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:

>Thanks for explaining concepts behind XGrid.
>www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com have also a good explanation of
>Scatter/Gather patterns.
>So, XGrid is something which allows declaratively to set up multiple stages
>(XPipes) through which scattered doc fragments could be pumped through and
>eventually gathered ?

I think of XGrid more as a deployment pattern for XPipes. If you write an XPipe
engine so that it can harness multiple independent CPUs using, for example,
P2P methods, then it is an XGrid.

I'm travelling and on hols a bit for next two weeks and I'm going cold 
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Sean