Apple Qmaster 2 and Compressor 2 (Distributed Processing Setup) - Manual (Page 8)

8 Preface Introduction to Distributed Processing
Clients
Batches are submitted for distributed processing from the client computers. A client
computer can be any computer that has Compressor 2 or Apple Qmaster installed and is
on the same network (subnet) as the cluster controller. Multiple client computers can be
on the same subnet, using the same cluster to do the processing for various applications.
You use Compressor 2 or the Apple Qmaster application to submit batches to be
processed for a client. See the
Compressor 2 User Manual and the Apple Qmaster 2
User Manual for details on using these applications.
Clusters
When a client sends batches to the Apple Qmaster distributed processing system, all
the processing and subsequent moving of any output files is performed by a group of
Apple Qmaster–configured computers called a
cluster. You can create one or more
clusters of service nodes, with one cluster controller included in each cluster. Each
computer in the cluster is connected to the other computers in the cluster through a
network connection.
Note: This illustration provides only one simple example of a cluster. Other possibilities
are described in Chapter 2, “ Preparing a Network for Distributed Processing .”
Cluster
controller
Service
node
Service
node
Service
node
Example of a cluster
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