Hello , i have been assigned a Network Computing project ..i.e. i have to divide a task into a number of subtasks , and then to process the subtasks through different workstaions in the network ...the suggested platform is Linux and the language is C/C++ ... i am not getting any idea about how to do it !!! can anybody help me !!!!

Well that kind of depends on what the specifications of the project are. Is it supposed to be one application which spawns sub processes on other systems to do it's work? Is it going to be one main program running on one of the systems with a lot of other smaller programs running on other systems? What kind of tasks do you have to divide among the systems? How will the workstations be connected to each other? To get started you'll have to think about how data will be passed from the main node to the sub nodes. Think of it this way. The main node has a big set of data and needs to end up with a big set of results. So first of all it splits the data into pieces and sends a bit to each node. Once the smaller nodes receive their data they will do their calculation and send the results back to the main node. The main node will have to combine the results. There are many other things which you will have to take into consideration but I'm not exactly sure exactly what it is your trying to do. Mik