I am creating a grid application which requires me to send software packets that wrap a class out to participating nodes within my grid.
The first idea that I came up with was to have the master nodes contact each node (running a Windows service) and send an assembly containing a class which adheres to a common interface along with a .config file containing, well, configuration information.
Is there a better way to do this? Aside from the discussion on whether this should be a push or a pull, what’s the best way to get what is effectively a software update out? It would be great if I could use something similar to a WCF service called by the client nodes, but that would, of course, leave the real processing on the master node, which would effectively uncluster my cluster.
You can send the assembly bytes and load them directly into the runtime. It work well for managed code. I’m not aware of a better way to do this. And yes, use a push model 🙂