Distributed Computing Framework (.NET) - Specifica

Question

I am currently researching the options that are available (both Open Source and Commercial) for developing a distributed application.

"A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network." Wikipedia

The application is focused on distributing highly cpu intensive operations (as opposed to data intensive) so I'm sure MapReduce solutions don't fit the bill.

Any framework that you can recommend ( + give a brief summary of any experience or comparison to other frameworks ) would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Azure Grid - http://azuregrid.codeplex.com/

• Community edition of the Neudesic Grid Computing Framework (http://www.neudesic.com/insight/Publications/Pages/PUB20090428.aspx)
• Includes a GUI for starting and monitoring job runs.
• Part 1: A Design Pattern for Grid Computing on Azure.
• Part 2: Coding an Azure Grid Application.
• Part 3: Running an Azure Grid Application.

Answer 2

DryadLINQ is a Microsoft Research project to allow LINQ queries to be distributed among multiple computers, rather than just multiple cores as Parallel LINQ does.

Blog post with a brief example.