Pods

Latest - 2001-11-11

Clustering 101

You can now define your own shells for pods processing (previously only bc was available). Here are some example scripts to allow you to render povray images over pods.

Binaries compiled from CVS are available on the project page.

There is a short guide to getting your own project processed on pods. Feedback much appreciated...

You are strongly advised to seek help on the pods-devl mailing list before doing anything.

Current status

XML-based protocol and metapod implementation
Disk storage resource
Request pods from other nodes
shuffle pods can now distribute pods for all resources
Processing architecture in place, supports bc scripts
GTK download client
Command-line request/upload clients
Command-line processing client

What is Pods?

Pods is a P2P network, but more generalised than existing ones like Freenet and gnutella. read more

Screen Shots

This is the GTK pods client

Download

If you're interested in testing pods you'll have to check out the code from CVS. Instructions can be found here.

Alternatively, you can try out the SF CVS snapshot, which you can get here.

Help

If you want to contribute to this project you're most welcome!

Have a look at the TODO list in the latest release.

If you're a windows kinda person, porting would be handy! The code should port fairly cleanly since libcommonc++ is used for most stuff.

You may also want to join the pods-devl mailing list, which you can find here.

Contact Info

So who do you blame for all this?

tom@playford.net - web site, admin
leo@marvin.dyndns.org - dev, admin

Thanks to for hosting the project.