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Using Skype to Monitor Remote Systems

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IainB:
@timns: This seems redolent, to some extent, of the Tandem NonStop II (circa 1985) Guardian operating system. Each of the CPUs in a system group would keep broadcasting on a fast bus to all the other CPUs in the group an "I'm alive" message every 3.5 seconds or something very precise. If a processor failed to broadcast the message within the allotted elapsed time, then it was deemed to have failed and was excommunicated from the group, with subsequent transactions being rerouted/re-queued in the system to avoid the "failed" CPU.

mashmata:
Cool stuff, i didn't realize how easy it was to interface code to skype.. makes one think of other program ideas..
-mouser (March 06, 2011, 10:34 AM)
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Quite... The possibilities are quite possibly limitless...:)

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