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From: segall@caip.rutgers.edu (Ed Segall)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: using network machines as compute servers
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Date: 4 Dec 89 14:08:03 GMT
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> Consider the following: One "master" puts  "tasks" in a batch, there to be
> picked up by the "slaves" as each completes its current task. When a slave
> completes a task it puts the solution in an appropriate batch, there to be
> picked up and stored by the master (depending on the problem, one might want
> to write directly to a file ...). 

This sounds like it it perfectly suited for Linda.

--Ed Segall
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