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Improve collaborative build times with ccache
Collaboratively building a C/C++ project using cc or gcc to share source files and other components works fine with CVS, but the time required to build the application when it has been merged with everybody else’s changes can be significant. Even …
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 5: Client Development
Grids appear from the outside to be complicated beasts that require complex configuration and applications to make them work effectively. In fact, they can be built fairly easily and with relatively simple tools. In this final part of a five-part …
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 4: Submission and distribution
Splitting up a grid into simpler, smaller, elements makes the whole process of building a grid much easier. Grids are not mystic, they just require careful planning and a degree of flexibility in their operation and structure to allow work to be s…
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Building a grid with Perl, Part 3: Metadata
This tutorial is the third in a series of tutorials looking at how you can develop a grid solution with Perl. This series looks at building a framework for a grid system while also creating a distributed image storage/retrieval system as a sample …
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 2: Exchanging information
In this tutorial series, we’re using Perl to build a resource grid that stores and manipulates photos and images. Communication drives the grid process, and in this tutorial we’ll look at the communication requirements in our grid, including the n…
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 1
Put your Perl skills to work and learn how to build an image storage grid distributed over a number of machines. The generic resource framework you build can be used for any resource grid system, but the example system will concentrate on storing …