Best way to deploy a Java application on a cluster of servers?

Question

I have a cluster of 32 servers and I need a tool to distribute a Java service, packaged as a Jar file, to each machine and remotely start the service. The cluster consists of Linux (Suse 10) servers with 8 cores per blade. The application is a data grid which uses Oracle Coherence. What is the best tool for doing this?

Answer 1

I asked something similar once, and it seems that the Java Parallel Processing Framework might be what you need:

http://www.jppf.org/

From the web site:

JPPF is an open source Grid Computing platform written in Java that makes it easy to run applications in parallel, and speed up their execution by orders of magnitude. Write once, deploy once, execute everywhere!