[ptp-dev] Remote capabilities

[Craig Rasmussen <crasmussen@xxxxxxxx>]

I've finished draft of a requirements document for remote  
capabilities in PTP.  If I can, I'll put it up on the wiki today.

Over the holidays I was playing with the Remote System Explorer, part  
of target management of the DSDP project.  It looks to do some of the  
remote capabilities that we need for PTP.  In particular, it manages  
connections to remote file systems.

It also may provide an API to start up processes on remote systems,  
however, I haven't found it yet, if it exists.  At the moment, I'm  
just trying to do something simple like start up a remote ORTE  
daemon.  I think with the orte proxy this should allow us to run jobs  
remotely (at least in the interactive queue), someone please correct  
me if I'm wrong.

Beth, have you found anything in RTE to do with starting remote  
processes?  I can see a Processes folder in the Remote Systems view,  
but so far I've really only been able to start up a stupid shell.

Cheers,
Craig