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		Gollapalli on July 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying... I'm trying to run jobs on a timer when the jobs are on a cluster and I don't know which server the job is assigned to. It's essentially a problem of distributed timers and distributed transactions. (If anyone has any resources on how similar problems have been solved in the past, I'd appreciate it.)

pmiller2 on July 5, 2020 | [–]

Maybe not what you’re asking for, but this should at least give you an idea what to look for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_synchronization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)

dredmorbius on July 6, 2020 | [–]

Sounds like any number of queue-management systems.

Most also allow for specifying minimum system resources and/or required configurations (for nonuniform clusters).

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