Distributed Job scheduling, management, and reporting

Question

I recently had a play around with Hadoop and was impressed with it\'s scheduling, management, and reporting of MapReduce jobs. It appears to make the distribution and execut

Answer 1

I guess you are looking for a workflow engine for CPU intensive tasks (also know "scientific workflow", e.g. http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/swf-survey). But I'm not sure how distributed do you want it to be. Usually all workflow engines have a "single point of failure".